| Name of Notable | Genus | AsNotedIn | No | Address | Proximity | Area |
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| Name | Genus | AsNotedIn | Address | Proximity | Area | |
| C J Prescott House |
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12 | Hickey St | ||
| Chollar Mansion |
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565 | S D St | ||
| King-McBride Mansion |
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26 - 28 | S Howard St | ||
| Lagomarsino Petroglyph Site |
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Address Restricted | |||
| Marlette Lake Water System |
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Roughly, From Marlette Lake E to NV 80 | |||
| McCarthy House |
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50 | S I St | ||
| Parish House |
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109 | S F St | ||
| Piper's Opera House |
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1, 3 and 5 | N B St | ||
| Piper-Beebe House |
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2 | S A St | ||
| Silver Terrace Cemeteries |
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E St, northern terminus | |||
| Virginia City Historic District |
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Virginia City and its environs |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1859/00/00 | John William Mackay | Life | After eight years of placer mining in California that produced little results, John Mackay goes over the Sierras Mountains to Virginia City, Nevada. | |||
| 1862/07/06 | Mark Twain | Work | Writing under the name of Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens begins publishing news stories in the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. As the local Editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, he made $40.00 a week. | |||
| 1862/09/00 | John William Mackay | Life | Envious of Mackay's brokerage office in a new frame house on C St, Twain offers to trade his job as editor with Mackay's mining business. Mackay asked what the paper paid, and after Twain replies $40 a week, Mackay said his business wasn't worth that. | Mark Twain's Autobiography | ||
| 1862/09/00 | Mark Twain | Life | Envious of Mackay's brokerage office in a new frame house on C St, Twain offers to trade his job as editor with Mackay's mining business. Mackay asked what the paper paid, and after Twain replies $40 a week, Mackay said his business wasn't worth that. | Mark Twain's Autobiography | ||
| 1871/00/00 | Consolidated Virginia and California Mining Companies | Owner | James Graham Fair, James C Flood, John Mackey and William S O'Brien establish the Consolidated Virginia Silver Mine near Virginia City, Nevada | |||
| 1873/00/00 | Consolidated Virginia and California Mining Companies | Consolidated Virginia and California Mining Companies strike one of the richest veins of silver ore ever found anywhere. |
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