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  2. Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Nevada ...

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    July 4, 1961 [2] Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the district ...

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away ...

  4. Virginia City Highlands, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, the area consisted of 24 square miles of 40-acre lots, 506 10-acre lots and 1,069 one acre lots. From 1971 until 1978 horses that had been on the private land were not rounded up. In 1978, the Nevada Brand Inspectors Office decided that some of the horses in the area were owned by the wranglers who had used the area before 1971.

  5. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort.

  6. Chollar Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Chollar Mansion. /  39.30278°N 119.65083°W  / 39.30278; -119.65083. The Chollar Mansion is located at 565 S. D Street, in Virginia City, western Nevada. It is a historic Victorian Italianate style house, that was built between 1862 and 1864. [2]

  7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

  8. List of cities in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The largest municipality by land area is Boulder City, which spans 208.52 sq mi (540.1 km 2), while Lovelock is the smallest at 0.85 sq mi (2.2 km 2). [2] The first place in Nevada to incorporate was Carson City, on March 1, 1875 , and the most recent place was Fernley , on July 1, 2001 .

  9. Virginia City, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Virginia City, Nevada. /  39.31028°N 119.64944°W  / 39.31028; -119.64944. Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. [ 4] The city is a part of the Reno – Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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