Feel as though you've stepped back in time at this gold rush-era town that was once desolate but is now home to preserved shops, a train, and other attractions.

US Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) have announced funding with the hopes to breathe new ...

It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia City-based historian, said Black residents began arriving in ...

In his mining history column for Mining the West magazine, UNR mining history professor Eric Nystrom looks at the history of ...

a situation that killed two men in a mine accident near Virginia City in 1996. Since 1961, there have been 19 reported deaths in abandoned mines in Nevada, along with 24 injuries. Four dogs also ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-9th, jointly announced the funding in a written statement.

which was constructed to transport timber from the woods around Lake Tahoe to mines in Virginia City. Additionally, steamboats often used Sand Harbor to offload their cargo. While much of the ...