Early baseball in Nevada/Club 7
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|Pagetext=The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866 says the Virginia and Northwestern Clubs are to play a match game for the Virginia City city championship on Nov. 29th. | |Pagetext=The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866 says the Virginia and Northwestern Clubs are to play a match game for the Virginia City city championship on Nov. 29th. | ||
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+ | Virginia City NV (1860 pop. about 2,300; 1870 pop. about 7,000; ) is about 10 miles NE of Carson City. Its current pop is about 850. | ||
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+ | Wikipedia: "Gold Hill is a community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City . . . . Prosperity was sustained for a period of 20 years between 1868 and 1888 by mining the Comstock Lode, a major deposit of silver ore. . . . The Gold Hill post office remained in operation until 1943. Today Gold Hill exists as a shell of its former self; its population in 2005 was 191." | ||
|Sources=The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866. | |Sources=The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:49, 12 September 2012
Spread of baseball: Home -> Nevada -> Early baseball in Nevada/Club 7 |
Location | Nevada |
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Year | 1866 |
Month | 11 |
Date | 29 |
City | Virginia City |
State | NV |
Nickname | Virginia, Northwestern |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866 says the Virginia and Northwestern Clubs are to play a match game for the Virginia City city championship on Nov. 29th.
Virginia City NV (1860 pop. about 2,300; 1870 pop. about 7,000; ) is about 10 miles NE of Carson City. Its current pop is about 850.
Wikipedia: "Gold Hill is a community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City . . . . Prosperity was sustained for a period of 20 years between 1868 and 1888 by mining the Comstock Lode, a major deposit of silver ore. . . . The Gold Hill post office remained in operation until 1943. Today Gold Hill exists as a shell of its former self; its population in 2005 was 191."
Sources
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 22, 1866.