| Eventually back on the road. More ghost towns. Still cloudy. Not a lot of sun so far on the trip. |
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| There are two towns very close to one another. This is Nevada City. |
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| I think the point of this place is that it is on the other end of a tourist train trip between two towns. It was hard to tell if there were any attractions here. Everything seemed closed. |
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| A train station. Or at least a building built to look like an old train station. The restroom was open, so it was a win. |
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| Behind the building, which is a visitor center, were some old train cars. |
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| Since there was not much going on in Nevada City, I headed farther down the road to Virginia City. The storefront on the left was an old blacksmith shop. |
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| Marion County Courthouse, 1876. Virginia City was the first incorporated city in Montana. |
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| Don't know what it used to be, but it is an Elk's Lodge hall now. |
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| On January 14, 1864, when this building was under construction, five bad guys were hanged from the heavy center support beam. It was a drug store, then a post office and in 1903 the office of the Virginia City Water Company, owned by Sarah Bickford. She was perhaps the only black woman in Montana history to own a utility. |
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| Brothers John A. and Edward Creighton settled temporarily in Virginia City when scouting the first transcontinental telegraph from Omaha to the Pacific coast. They had this stone building built. In 1866 they brought the first telegraph line in Montana to Virginia City, connecting it to Salt Lake City. When Edward Creighton died, his widow followed his wishes to endow a university. That school is Creighton University. |
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| There wasn't much going on this cold Tuesday morning. The shops and dining establishments weren't seeing a lot of business. |
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| The red brick building used to hold the entire Montana territorial government offices when the city was the territorial capital from 1865 to 1875. |
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| The Anaconda Hotel building, dating back to 1863, started as a restaurant called Young American Eating House. It became a hotel in the 1890's. |
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 The roadside sign said that Beaver's Head Rock was a well-known landmark for the Shoshone and other Rocky Mountain tribes. I guess one of those mountains is Beaver's Head. |
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| The road from one former territorial capital to another. |
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