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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 population was 219 at the 2020 census. [6]
Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place. Many of the city's buildings were built before the turn of the 20th century, and a significant number date to its heyday in the 1860s.
The Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society, founded in 1969 by then-professor of architectural history at Montana State University John N. Dehaas Jr., [1] is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public to the benefits of preserving historic buildings, [2] sites, and artifacts that make up the living history of Montana. [3]
Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park. [3]
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Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghost towns in Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West Ghost town Gallery
Wells Hotel, Garnet Ghost Town, Montana The town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Garnet Historic District , a historic district , in 2010. The listing included 82 contributing buildings , 46 contributing structures , and 56 contributing sites , as well as four non-contributing buildings, on 134 acres (54 ha).