Virginia City Montana

Several of my co-workers decided to plan a trip to an old mining town called Virgina City. It was one of the biggest gold mining cities with tons of history and is supposed to be haunted (?). I guess that they have ghost tours at night and regular tours during the day. Chris and I learned that Virgina City was a booming gold mining town (p.s. gold mining is still in operation today) and was built in 1864. During that first year the city grew to 35,000 miners plus a town to support them and had 100 murders!!! During the time of the murders, the sheriff himself was on probation for murder in another state. He hired some of his crook buddies to run the town hence the chaos. Eventually the town went on a vigilante spree and took manners in there own hands, hanging 24 people in two weeks. What was really neat was that most of the towns buildings are the original and are over 100 years old.

WELCOME TO ENNIS....this is not a typo.

On our way to to Virgina City we passed through a small town called Ennis where they have FREAL Milkshakes. I believe Ennis was this guy...

Please excuse my poppin belly I am almost 5 months prego and am showing A LOT!

Ennis people love hats

Finally after passing through Ennis and through some mountains we arrived to Virginia City!
Chris- "gotta go gotta go gotta go right now!"

Some of the scenic shots taken...the middle is of an old brewery where you could get a bucket of beer for a dollar but you had to bring your own bucket!

Home at last! All the houses were built for short people like Chris and I!

The End