Discovery of Silver - 100 Years - Virginia City, NV, USA
N 39° 18.622 W 119° 38.972
11S E 271561 N 4354566
This historical marker, commemorating the discovery of silver, stands in the center of town, on a large, four-sided, composite rock base monument, with informative plaques on each side relating historical events and people of Virginia City, Nevada.
Waymark Code: WMGCV1
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2013
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This monument is situated on the edge of a parking lot on the east side of C Street, between Union Street and Taylor Street. This is one of seven historical markers attached to the monument, it reads:
THE
COMSTOCK LODE
DISCOVERED 8 JUNE 1859
AT HEAD OF SIX MILE CANYON
WASHOE MINING DISTRICT
VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA
THIS MONUMENT OF ORE FROM
EVERY NEVADA COUNTY
COMMEMORATES THE ONE-
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE DISCOVERY OF SILVER.
"The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range. After the discovery was made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to the area and scrambled to stake their claims. Mining camps soon thrived in the vicinity, which became bustling centers of fabulous wealth.
It is notable not just for the immense fortunes it generated and the large role those fortunes had in the growth of Nevada and San Francisco, but also for the advances in mining technology that it spurred. The mines declined after 1874." (
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