Nevada City | Cold Sunset What a nice sunset on a cold, quiet Montana November night! The early miner settlers of Nevada City must have seem many nice winter sunsets. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | Train Station The Nevada City train station has a permanently parked train on a side rail. The old mining camp of Nevada City started when gold was discovered nearby in 1863. Now, although this old west town has no permanent residents, it’s maintained mostly by folks in Virginia city, who worked for the State of Montana. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | General Store Most small towns in the 1800s had a general store where you could buy groceries, hardware, clothes, etc. Just about anything you really needed for daily living! For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | Sedman House The Sedman House came from Junction City,1.5 miles north of Nevada City. It was built in 1873 for rancher, gold miner and legislator Oscar Sedman as his fine “in town” house. Later, it became a boarding house, a stable of sorts, and was finally moved to Nevada City for preservation by the Bovey family. It’s one of those special places where old energy, like ghosts, seems to linger. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | Engine CO 1 The streets of Nevada City do not get plowed. The ghosts don’t need to walk the streets like us humans. Luck for them; the snow gets pretty deep by mid winter. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | Barber Shop Shave and a haircut; two bits! Hey, those gold miners had to get a cleaned up occasionally. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | Downtown Visit Nevada City in winter. It looks and feels like a ghost town. The main drag was literally deserted. For the whole story with all images, see Nevada City | a 7 Image Story.
Nevada City | a 7 Image Story Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, is today a restored ghost town in Madison County, Montana. The Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. It’s also a tourist attraction with fourteen original old buildings along with 94 additional authentic gold rush era buildings moved to Nevada City by the Bovey family. Essentially, the whole town is a living old ghost town museum. It also has a large collection of old-time music boxes, player pianos and calliopes. It keeps the memory of the original Old West alive.
During the summer months, a number of buildings house businesses including a small hotel, bed & breakfast, bakery, and coffee shop. In the winter, it returns to more a ghost town. The town is currently managed by the State of Montana.
The old mining camp of Nevada City started when gold was discovered nearby in 1863. Nevada City was comprised mostly of miners working several nearby mining districts. In the beginning, the mining district was part of the Idaho Territory. In fact, until neighboring Virginia City became the Montana territorial capitol in 1865, there was no law in Nevada City except for the miner’s court. In the 1860s, Nevada City and its sister city, Virginia City were part of the “Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West.” Virginia City and Nevada City are about one mile apart. They are located along Adler Gulch where one of the richest placer gold strikes in the Rocky Mountains was found. In the early 1860s, an estimated $30 million worth of gold was removed from the gulch over several mining seasons. Although it was a boom town in the early 1860s post-Civil War era, the town was virtually a ghost town by 1876.
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