Virginia City
a city and countyand Truckee railroad; 15 miles N. Ν. slope of Mt. Davidson at an elevation of 7,825 feet above sea-level. public and private schools, a mining school, court house, St. Mary's H Here are newspapers. The city owes its growth a county hospital, banks, and several Hospital, school, court house, St. Mary's Hospital, which have been taken over $900,000,000 VIRGINIA CREEPER in gold bullion. The city has many ore smelting and refining plants built at considerable cost. Virginia City was settled in 1859, and was incorporated in 1861. Pop. (1910) 2,244; (1920) 1,200.
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VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, an educational non-sectarian institution in Lexington, Va.; founded in 1839; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 34; students, 673.