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Washoe City Comstock mill town and county seat
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Indian Head cents, buttons, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1860-1880s Comstock lumber and milling town
Lumber and ore-milling town on Washoe Lake that supplied Virginia City and became the first Washoe County seat, with a newspaper, hospital, courthouse and jail and perhaps 6,000 people by 1865. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad bypassed it, the seat moved to Reno in 1871 and it was empty by the early 20th century.View source →
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