A Guide to Historic Virginia City

A Guide to Historic Virginia City

Author: Marilyn Grant

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780917298561

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The gold-rush-era town of Virginia City, recently purchased by the State of Montana to preserve for posterity, makes a fitting first subject for the Montana Mainstreet series. Once it was Montana's acting territorial capital and the center of trade for Alder Gulch, the site of the richest placer mines in the world, but Virginia City became a town almost frozen in time once gold deposits played out and the state capital moved to Helena in 1889. Today, Virginia City attracts visitors from all over the world, who marvel at its intact architecture. If walking down Virginia City's streets is like a trip backwards in time, the road map for that journey is Guide to Historic Virginia City.


The Roar and the Silence

The Roar and the Silence

Author: Ronald M. James

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 0874174171

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Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.


A Guide to Historic Staunton, Virginia

A Guide to Historic Staunton, Virginia

Author: Edmund D. Potter

Publisher: History & Guide

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596295438

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Unlike many small towns in the South that were occupied by the Union army, beautiful Staunton, Virginia, emerged from the Civil War largely unscathed. Join historian Edmund Potter on a walking tour through the many architectural gems and notable buildings of downtown Staunton's five National Historic Districts. From the picturesque Wharf Area to the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson to the town's many historically African American businesses, A Guide to Historic Staunton offers visitors and residents alike a deeper appreciation of their remarkable surroundings.


An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments

An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments

Author: Timothy S. Sedore

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2011-04-29

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0809386259

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From well-known battlefields, such as Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Appomattox, to lesser-known sites, such as Sinking Spring Cemetery and Rude’s Hill, Sedore leads readers on a vivid journey through Virginia’s Confederate history. Tablets, monoliths, courthouses, cemeteries, town squares, battlefields, and more are cataloged in detail and accompanied by photographs and meticulous commentary. Each entry contains descriptions, fascinating historical information, and location, providing a complete portrait of each site. Much more than a visual tapestry or a tourist’s handbook, An Illustrated Guide to Virginia’s Confederate Monuments draws on scholarly and field research to reveal these sites as public efforts to reconcile mourning with Southern postwar ideologies. Sedore analyzes in depth the nature of these attempts to publicly explain Virginia’s sense of grief after the war, delving deep into the psychology of a traumatized area. From commemorations of famous generals to memories of unknown soldiers, the dead speak from the pages of this sweeping companion to history.


The Virginia Landmarks Register

The Virginia Landmarks Register

Author: Calder Loth

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 0813918626

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The Virginia Landmarks Register, fourth edition, will create for the reader a deeper awareness of a unique legacy and will serve to enhance the stewardship of Virginia's irreplaceable heritage.


A Guide to Historic Missoula

A Guide to Historic Missoula

Author: Allan James Mathews

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780917298899

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The sixth volume in the Montana Mainstreet series, A Guide to Historic Missoula points readers to the buildings, historic sites, and parks that act as monuments to Missoula's--and Montana's--history.


A Guide to Historic Glendive

A Guide to Historic Glendive

Author:

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780917298585

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Young readers are invited along on an African safari where they can see elephants spraying, lions playing, and hippos soaking.


Haunted Virginia City

Haunted Virginia City

Author: Janice Oberding

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1626199477

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Unlike any city in America, Virginia City epitomizes the notion of a western boom-and-bust ghost town. The Comstock Silver Rush lured wealth seekers from around the world, including a young Samuel Clemens. Despite the fortune some found, not all of the town's earliest settlers rest easy. Shops, hotels, boardwalks and cemeteries are said to be filled with the supernatural remnants of Virginia City's hardscrabble characters and their violent propensities. The queen of haunted Nevada, Janice Oberding, mines Virginia City's spectral history, from the ghost of Henry Comstock to the ghostly Rosie and William of the Gold Hill Hotel.


A Guide to Historic Bozeman

A Guide to Historic Bozeman

Author: Jim Jenks

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780972152235

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Bozeman has been home to many pasts. Founded in the 1860s, the town has grown from a frontier farming settlement to a bustling city and center of academic excellence. This guide tells the stories of the places and people that built Bozeman and the efforts to preserve the town's colorful history.


Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Street by Street

Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Street by Street

Author: Ethelyn Cox

Publisher: E P M Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780939009183

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Historic Alexandria Foundation. This record of a famous port's architectural life includes 375 photographs of more than 500 buildings dating from 1749 to the mid-19th century.