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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.
[11] [12] By 1933, the Virginia City–Ennis highway was gravel for 10 miles (16 km) east from Virginia City and was only graded the remaining 5 miles (8.0 km) to Ennis. [10] The highway from Twin Bridges to Virginia City remained an unimproved dirt road. [12] However, by 1936, that highway was brought into the primary highway system. [13]
Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,623. [2] Its county seat is Virginia City. [3] The county was founded in 1865; [4] at the time it was part of the Montana Territory.
Although Bannack was the first territorial capital, the territorial legislature moved the capital to Virginia City on February 7, 1865. [10] It remained the capital until April 19, 1875, when it moved to Helena. [11] Thomas Dimsdale began publication of Montana's first newspaper, the Montana Post, in Virginia City on August 27, 1864. [12]
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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 ...
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The paths from cabin to cabin made a perfect diamond in the snow as seen from the slopes above, and so the cabins in the gulch were named Diamond City. The "city" part of the name was a joke, comparing this poor settlement of Southern sympathizers to the booming mining camps of Helena and Virginia City. [6] [7]