Pandemic Photo Road Trips

PANDEMIC PHOTO ROAD TRIPS

Back to Nevada with Bill Tulley in this edition's installment of Pandemic Photo Road Trips. 

 At its peak, Virginia City was a thriving, vibrant metropolis of 25,000 residents, located about 35 miles southeast of Reno, Nevada in the Virginia Range and in the shadow of Mount Davidson. Silver and gold was buried deep beneath her streets and men and women traveled from around the world to live and work. Miners pulled millions of dollars from shafts and tunnels 3,000 feet beneath the thriving town. The spirit of those Comstock “originals” still inhabits the places where they once worked, lived, worshiped, educated and died.

Thanks for the tour, Bill!

VIRGINIA CITY, NV

Main 'C' Street

As a result of the Comstock Lode, the 19th-century mining bonanza turned Virginia City into the most important industrial city between Denver and San Francisco.

Chollar Mansion

Presbyterian Church

Mackay Mansion

Originally built as the Gold & Curry Mine Office, this historic building became home to John Mackay, king of the Comstock and founder of University of Nevada, Reno.

House

Fourth Ward School

The last standing multi-story wooden school building of its kind in the United States.

Savage Mansion

St. Mary's in the Mountains Catholic Church

Nevada’s oldest Catholic Church 

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

All the wood inside and out is original to the building.

Mansion