I spent a couple of hours at Nevada City this past weekend, snapping pictures. The town is a living history museum, "populated" by various characters drawn from the town's nineteenth century heyday. In that sense, it's a bit more developed than a lot of the other ghost towns around Montana, and a pleasant place to pass a little time. It was an especially nice day when I was there, with nice light for pictures.
Most of the buildings have been modestly maintained, and some fitted with something like the original trappings relevant to their use (like the tools and wheels outside the smith's shop below).
Compared to the version of the old west towns one is likely to encounter in the movies, Nevada City is both more compact (individual buildings) and more spread out (for the most part, the buildings are kind of scattered instead of butting up against each other). This may reflect a version of the community that evolved after its initial boom days (it sits near Alder Creek, site of one of the biggest gold strikes in the 1860s). The stories told by the docents also paints a picture much less romantic than the versions common in popular culture.
I spent a couple of hours at Nevada City this past weekend, snapping pictures. The town is a living history museum, "populated" by various characters drawn from the town's nineteenth century heyday. In that sense, it's a bit more developed than a lot of the other ghost towns around Montana, and a pleasant place to pass a little time. It was an especially nice day when I was there, with nice light for pictures.
Most of the buildings have been modestly maintained, and some fitted with something like the original trappings relevant to their use (like the tools and wheels outside the smith's shop below).
Compared to the version of the old west towns one is likely to encounter in the movies, Nevada City is both more compact (individual buildings) and more spread out (for the most part, the buildings are kind of scattered instead of butting up against each other). This may reflect a version of the community that evolved after its initial boom days (it sits near Alder Creek, site of one of the biggest gold strikes in the 1860s). The stories told by the docents also paints a picture much less romantic than the versions common in popular culture.
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