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11 unusual facts about Silver City


1st Battalion Nevada Volunteer Cavalry

Company A was recruited in Silver City under Elias Brevoort "Buck" Zabriske who then became captain.

Ana Egge

Egge grew up the daughter of a teacher and a wheat farmer in Ambrose, North Dakota, and later moved to Silver City, New Mexico.

Dayton State Park

The Rock Point Stamp Mill was built in 1861 to process ore from Silver City and Virginia City.

J. Doyne Farmer

Although born in Houston, Texas, he spent most of his early life in Silver City, New Mexico, where he first developed an interest in physics.

Lottie Deno

Lottie later became the owner of the Broadway Restaurant in Silver City.

Oil!

Additionally the oil museums in Kern County, California and the libraries and museums in the area around Silver City, New Mexico, and especially the period photography, played a large part in shaping his screenplay and the film.

Sharman Apt Russell

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where she teaches writing for graduate students.

Silver City, Mississippi

Spencer Haywood, participated on the US Olympic gold medal winning basketball team, then played professionally.

Terry D. Clark

In 1996, prominent New Mexico capital defense lawyer Gary Mitchell represented Clark at his retrial in Silver City, New Mexico.

The Rubber Band

In Silver City, Nevada during the days of the Wild West, a group of men calling themselves the Rubber Band—among them Walsh, Scovil and the fathers of Clara and Hilda—helped the Marquis, then called George Rowley, escape a lynching in return for a share of the Marquis’ substantial inheritance.

Tour of the Gila

Beginning in Silver City, New Mexico, the men's course covers around 540 km over five days, while the women's course covers about 100 km less.


Armando Montaño

While attending the Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, Armando Montaño wrote for the school newspaper and interviewed actress Daryl Hannah and director John Sayles for an interview about their Colorado-based movie "Silver City".

Ben Lilly

He died at eighty, on December 17, 1936, on a ranch in Pleasanton, near Silver City, New Mexico and is buried in the historic Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City.

Gila National Forest

There are local ranger district offices in Glenwood, Mimbres, Quemado, Reserve, Silver City, and Truth or Consequences.

Outline of Christmas Island

Christmas Island supports about 1,600 residents who live in a number of "settlement areas" on the northern tip of the island: Flying Fish Cove (also known as Kampong), Silver City, Poon Saan and Drumsite.

Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

In 2006, the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival recognized writer/director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi for their more than two decades of collaboration in independent film, which includes such acclaimed indie classics as The Brother From Another Planet, Passion Fish, Lone Star, and the Sidewalk 2004 Opening Night Film, Silver City.

Virginia City, Nevada

There is an annual hillclimb that runs from Silver City to Virginia City via Highway 341 (a truck route) that is put on jointly between the Ferrari Club of America Pacific Region and the Northern California Shelby Club.