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Thompson-Hickman Museum

There is something profoundly Victorian about butterfly collecting. This abundance of Virginia City butterflies was collected by Sam and George Harriman and displayed in the Thompson-Hickman Museum

Experience a piece of Montana's gold rush history and the oddities that come with it at Virginia City Historical Museum in Virginia City, Montana.

Lexi Goforth
August 23, 2016

J.Spencer Watkins Memorial Museum

Most people have a pretty sterile vision of museums. They have institutional white walls and satin ropes. There may be a security guard perched by the entry way to the gallery. The J.Spencer Watkins Memorial Museum is not that museum.

Lexi Goforth
August 22, 2016

Gypsy Arcade

So many oddities come hand-in-hand with a ghost town. They are sieve for oddity: anything normal comes and goes but the strange curiosities lodge in the town to stay. In the case of Virginia City, that means a Nickelodeon that still charges a nickel to watch Bawdy films of scandalous women show their ankles and get your fortune told.

Lexi Goforth
August 21, 2016

Virginia City & Nevada City, Montana

Many small towns and cities sprouted up around the mining camps and the wealth pulled from Alder Canyon. Yet, only Virginia City has remained in a near complete state. Partially, this is because Virginia City was far enough from any known gold deposits that it wasn't razed to make way for further gold discovery. Partially, it was due to the much later interest from Charles Bovey, heir to the General Mills fortune.

Montana has had its share of gold rushes. When gold was discovered in Alder Canyon in the 1860s, it was yet another in a string of strikes.

Lexi Goforth
August 20, 2016
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