Part 4: Nevada City, MT

Now Nevada City, MT was where all the fun really was.

After an early lunch we took a train ride from Virginia City to Nevada City. The two cities are about a mile or two part. There was no train in the early days put the track was put in as a tourist attraction and only runs between the two cities. You can get to Nevada City by car as well but that just isn't as fun as a train. During the summer they run this steam engine but the rest of the year they run a diesel. The kids loved the train ride, but they did say the train whistle was too loud. :)

Hey look, I'm in a picture!
This is us on the train.

And here is Savannah taking a little snooze on the ride.

Nevada City is a Ghost town that has been turned into a museum. The original town buildings are all still in good shape and you can walking around and explore them. On the weekends volunteers come in and pretend they are the original town settlers. Some of them even live in the old homes for the weekend and actually cook their meals in the wood fire ovens. It was a lot of fun walking around the old town and greeting all the people.

This first lady taught us how to do our laundry in a wash bassin.

This was inside one of the houses:

The volunteers made us cobbler from the wood fire oven and some hand cracked ice cream.

The saloon was pretty fun. You could buy a cold drink in there (root beer and sarsaparillas) and they taught you some games as well.

The blacksmith was one of our favorites. He was making a belt hook while we were there.

Out side the museum was a Music Hall filled with antique carnival organs and game machines. They had one of those old palm readers that reminded me of the Big movie with Tom Hanks. Some of these machines still work. It was pretty neat.

After the museum we went and did some gold and garnet panning. We planned about $10 or $15 worth of gold. It was fun.

These photos are a little out of order. But the other place the kids loved was the old school house in the museum. It was the first school house ever built in Montana.
I love this photo. You can see there was just one swing and if you follow the wooden board walk in front of the school it leads to the out house behind the school. I am so glad to live in modern times!

And these are just some fun pictures I took of the building around the town. It was so much fun and a great picturing taking spot. (Christine, You would LOVE this place!)