Welcome to Virginia City!

Virginia City

Welcome to Virginia City a real ghost town!  As we entered Virginia we parked the trailer, and eagerly headed out. Virginia City is truly an amazing ghost town. It’s not like you are looking into empty stores, you are actually looking into fully stocked shelves! Pretty amazing! Right? Walking down Main Street you have everything you need in a town. Clothing stores fully stocked shelves with variety of patterns, hats, and boxes full of shoes. Looking at the shoe repair shop brought back some memories for our parents. At the General store there were fully stocked shelves of cans, lots of kitchen ware, and fabric. There was actually about two to three general stores fully stocked some more than others. The clothing stores were really cool to see what the clothing they wore back then the “newest” styles, shoes, hats, and trunks. The toy store had toy cars, dolls, xylophone, and play horse and carriage. At the bell telephone Co there was the very historic switchboard. What a job!  The stagecoach and horses had mostly pretty buggies, not good for the hard trails they would encounter on their way. There was also a barber shop with nice reclining chair. Catch up on a nice nap while getting you haircut! The old church was built in 1875. It was only 70 years old when they left.  I really enjoyed looking at all the old buildings, and learning about the history behind it! Some of the buildings haven’t been used since the last day of business 1945! It was very interesting to see!