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5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Virginia City, Nevada

Updated September 9, 2022

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The Virginia City, Nevada, headquarters of E Clampus Vitus still stands in the middle of the town. According to officials, E Clampus Vitus is the only one of the remaining nineteenth-century fraternal orders that is growing in the twenty-first century.

The 19th-Century Secret Society Preserving the History of the West

The irreverent, all-male E Clampus Vitus commemorates overlooked people and events.
by Shoshi Parks
June 29, 2022
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