Early baseball in Nevada/Club 7
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| 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.
