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Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. [4] In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landmark District , the Virginia City Historic District . [ 5 ]
The Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City, Montana, United States.Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ten years.
February 2 – Historical Society of Montana incorporated at Virginia City, Montana. [36] February 5 – Governor Edgerton approves the Montana Territorial Seal designed by Francis M. Thompson (effectively the seal used by the state of Montana) [37] February 7 – Virginia City, Montana becomes the second capital of Montana Territory [38]
The Montana Trail was a wagon road that served gold rush towns such as Bannack, Virginia City and later Helena during the Montana gold rush era of the 1860s and 1870s. Miners and settlers all traveled the trail to try to find better lives in Montana. The trail was also utilized for freighting and shipping supplies and food goods to Montana from ...
The first structure built in Virginia City was the Mechanical Bakery. Virginia City, and Nevada City were the centers of commerce during the height of the Alder Gulch gold rush. In the first year the area had over 10,000 people living there. Montana Territory was established in May 1864, and the first territorial capital was Bannack. The ...
The Bertrand was a steamboat which sank on April 1, 1865, while carrying cargo up the Missouri River to Virginia City, Montana Territory, after hitting a snag in the river north of Omaha, Nebraska. Half of its cargo was recovered during an excavation in 1968, more than 100 years later.
Virginia City was the target of both routes; the new town became the second capital of the Montana Territory in 1865. [6] Settlers from the east followed the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming and eastern Montana, including the namesake city, and settlers from the south used the Virginia City branch of the Montana Trail from Utah and Idaho. [5]
The Territory of Montana selects Virginia City as the second Territorial Capital. February 2: The Territory of Montana creates nine original counties: Beaverhead County, Big Horn County, [14] Chouteau County, Deer Lodge County, Edgerton County, Gallatin County, Jefferson County, Madison County, and Missoula County. [11] 1864: October 30