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Red Dog Saloon (right) on Main Street in Virginia City. The Red Dog Saloon is a bar and live music venue located in Virginia City, Nevada. The bar played an important role in the history of the psychedelic music scene. Folk music enthusiast Mark Unobsky bought the Henry Comstock’s house in Virginia City. Then used the building to open a folk ...
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.
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 ...
In 1863, Piper expanded his holdings with the purchase of an entire block of additional property at the northwest corner of B and Union Streets, which came to be known as the multi-story Piper Business Block. The saloon lasted from 1861 to 1897 becoming one of the longest continually operating saloons in Virginia City. [13]
Julia Bulette (c. 1832 – January 19/20, 1867) was an English-born American prostitute in Virginia City, Nevada, a boomtown serving the Comstock Lode silver mine. She was murdered in 1867, and a French drifter named John Millain was quickly convicted and hanged for the crime.
Museums in Virginia City, Nevada (4 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Virginia City, Nevada" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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The Jersey Lilly, Judge Roy Bean's saloon in Langtry, Texas, c. 1900. A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers. A saloon might also be known as a "watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina ...