Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hot August Nights [1] is an annual event held in Reno and Virginia City, Nevada during the first week in August. The event features classic vehicles manufactured before 1979 and is also based on Classic Rock and roll as well. The term Hot August Nights got its name from the weather being hot as it generally is during the month of August. [2]
Virginia City was the first silver rush town, and the first to intensely apply large-scale industrial mining methods. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After a year in existence, the boomtown had 42 saloons, 42 stores, 6 restaurants, 3 hotels, and 868 dwellings to house a town residency of 2,345.
Upgrade to a faster, more secure version of a supported browser. It's free and it only takes a few moments:
Also in Virginia City is the Silver Queen Hotel and Wedding Chapel, [40] which is famous for its picture of a woman whose dress is made entirely of silver dollars. The hotel was built in 1876 and includes a saloon. Virginia City was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1961, and has been carefully preserved to retain its historic ...
Piper's Opera House is an historic performing arts venue in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada, United States.Piper's served as a training facility in 1897 for heavyweight boxing champion Gentleman Jim Corbett, in preparation for his title bout with Bob Fitzsimmons.
Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Nevada), listed on the NRHP in Nevada Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Virginia City Historic District .
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The C. J. Prescott House, at 12 Hickey St. in Virginia City, Nevada, is a historic house that was built in 1864. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It is one of the oldest houses in Virginia City, one of few surviving from Nevada's pre-statehood era, and having survived the "Great Fire" of October 26, 1875.