A town in western Nevada, USA. It is located in the Virginia Mountains, 26 km southeast of Reno. The town was founded in 1859 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, a gold and silver deposit, and prospered as a boom town, with the population peaking at 25,000 in the mid-1870s. Victorian-style mansions lined the streets, and Mark Twain worked as a reporter for the town's newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise. With the decline of the mining industry in the 1880s, it became a ghost town, and today it is visited by many tourists. Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
アメリカ合衆国ネバダ州西部の町。リノの南東26km,バージニア山脈中にある。1859年,金と銀の鉱脈コムストック・ロードの発見によって町が建設され,ブーム・タウンとして大繁栄し,1870年代中ごろには人口は最高の2万5000人に達した。ビクトリア様式の豪邸が建ち並び,マーク・トウェーンが,町の新聞《テリトリアル・エンタープライズ》のレポーターとして活躍した。80年代の鉱山の衰退とともにゴースト・タウン化し,今日では訪れる観光客が多い。
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