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30-77125. GNIS feature ID. 0778036. Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. [ 3] In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landmark District, the Virginia City Historic District. [ 4] The population was 219 at the 2020 census.
October 15, 1966. Designated NHLD. July 4, 1961 [2] The Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City, Montana, United States. Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ...
Tombstone, Arizona 's Boothill Graveyard in 2009. Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters, or those who "died with their boots on" (i.e., violently).
Levi Boone Helm (January 28, 1828 – January 14, 1864) was an American mountain man, Old West gunfighter and serial killer known as the Kentucky Cannibal.Helm gained his nickname for his opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh, usually in survival situations, though instances of killing people for their meat unprovoked were also documented.
Pages in category "Boot Hill cemeteries" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Virginia City, Montana; Virginia City, Nevada; W. Weaver ...
Hangman's Tree: Located in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas. [10] Massachusetts. Gallows Hill: A large tree once located at Proctor's Ledge, near the base of Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts, was probably the site of 19 executions in the 1692 Salem witch trials [11] Montana. Hangman's Tree: Ponderosa pine tree once located in ...
In July 1865, the Helena vigilantes captured Jack Silvie in Diamond City, Montana, and charged him with various crimes of robbery. Prior to his execution by hanging from Helena's "Hangman's Tree", Silvie confessed to being a member of the Virginia City road agents and to at least a dozen murders in the territory.
v. t. e. Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [ 2 ] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others. It had a separate Jewish cemetery, which is nearby.