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This rare 1909 postcard features a parade float from Comstock Mine in Gold Hill, Nevada, a ghost town. It celebrates $700,000,000 production in 50 years.
Approximate size: 5.4 inches x 3.4 inches
Gold Hill is an ghost town in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City. It was established in early 1859, following gold discoveries. By April of that year, most of the residents of Johntown, which was further down Gold Canyon, moved up to the new town.
Gold Hill, along with Virginia City, was one of the two settlements that popped up at the initial silver discoveries of the Comstock Lode. Although Gold Hill was smaller than Virginia City, it still became a significant city of around 8,000 people. Gold Hill’s prosperity lasted over two decades, from the mid-1860s until the late 1880s.
Considered the working-class city compared to the opulent and prosperous Virginia City, Gold Hill was the industrial center of the Comstock Lode. Mines such as the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point, and Belcher brought in over $10 million each in dividends.
Gold Hill declined along with the mines of the district. By the 1890s the great prosperity of the Comstock was largely over. Mining continued at various levels until World War II, so Gold Hill was never completely abandoned, but by all accounts is a ghost town. 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.
Historical remnants of the town can still be seen, including the Gold Hill Hotel, promoted as Nevada’s oldest hotel, in existence since some time prior to 1862; the former Bank of California building; the train depot; and remains of several of the mines.
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