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Nevada City (/ n ɪ ˈ v eɪ d ə / niv-AY-də) is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States.In the 1860s, it was one of two centers of commerce in what was known as one of the richest gold strikes in the Rocky Mountain West, along with its sister city Virginia City.
Nevada City, Montana: 1864 Residence Listed on NRHP Glover Cabin: Anaconda, Montana: 1865 Residence Pioneer Cabin and Caretaker’s House: Helena, Montana: 1864-1865 Residence Likely oldest house in Helena, MT St. Mary's Mission (Montana) Stevensville, Montana: 1866 Church Oldest church building in Montana [3] I.G. Baker House: Fort Benton ...
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 capital then moved to Virginia City, where it remained until 1875.
Virginia City and its smaller counterpart, Nevada City, are just northwest of Yellowstone National Park. Both were mining boom towns starting in the 1860s thanks to nearby gold strikes, and ...
In Virginia City, Lane became a bootmaker working for Dance and Stuart's Store. His employers respected him as a hard worker. [1] [2] In December 1863, a member of the Innocents gang, George Ives, was subjected to a vigilante trial in Nevada City, Montana. Lane rode to Bannack, Montana in order to inform Bannack sheriff Henry Plummer of the
Salt Lake City. Amarillo, Texas, Reno, Nevada and Oklahoma City, she said. In fact, a USA TODAY analysis found that 3.3 million Americans live in census tracts where the wildfire risk is “very ...
Reflecting this meteoric rise and fall, Diamond City has been aptly described as "the most spectacular of Montana's boom and bust gold towns" by the authoritative text, "Montana: A History of Two Centuries", by Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, William L. Lang, 1991, University of Washington Press, p. 67.
On this day in 1957, the first underground nuclear test was carried out at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375 square-mile research center located 65 miles away from Las Vegas.The 1,7 kiloton nuclear ...