Virginia City (Montana)

Madison County

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Virginia City is a town in the U.S. state of Montana, with 130 inhabitants, situated in Madison County, whose county seat ( county seat ) he is.

History

In May 1863, saw the first gold discoveries in the area of present-day Virginia City. As a result, 320 acres of land have been set for a city to be built, originally " Varina " meant, but ultimately their name " Virginia " was. The population in the surrounding area known as the Alder Gulch was around 1864 already about 9,000 people, most of them in Virginia City. 1865 Virginia City to Bannack, which was abandoned in the wake gradually, the new capital of the former Montana Territory.

The mining industry in the region was in 1875 again considerably reduced and the population of the city was only less than 800 then reached the end of the 19th century, the Virginia City mining and brought a new boom, which ended in 1937 with the end of this degradation again, although in the following years with the mining of quartz further mining was still.