Located about 30 minutes from Reno, Virginia City is one of the best-preserved Old West towns in Nevada. Historic C Street, a National Historic Landmark, is lined with buildings reflecting the ...

This Nevada city, known for its Old West charm, just earned a national spot on HGTV’s list of most charming small town downtowns.

Virginia City’s boom in the later half of the nineteenth century brought some of Nevada’s early Black residents to the community for its wealth and opportunity.

It’s a fair representation of what saloons looked like in the late 1800s and early 1900s throughout Nevada. Virginia City’s heyday of 100 or so saloons ran the gamut from “bit houses” with ...