Early baseball in Nevada/Club 5
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| Location | Nevada |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Modern address | Virginia City MT |
| City | Virginia City |
| State | NV |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Mountain Boys |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Virginia City "Territorial Enterprise", Aug. 13, 1874, says the Mountain Boys BBC of Virginia City played the Young Actives of Gold Hill on Aug. 12th.
Virginia City NV (1870 pop. about 7,000; 1880 pop. about 11,000) 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
Virginia City "Territorial Enterprise", Aug. 13, 1874
