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When the Fourth Ward School was created in 1876 to educate the children of the mining metropolis of Virginia City, Nevada, many state-of-the-art technologies were used. Each student at the Fourth Ward School had their own desk, (as opposed to other schoolhouses in which students shared long bench seating). Each classroom was heated by the new technology of gas furnaces. Now, as a museum, we too use state-of-the-art technologies to preserve and educate our guests about the magnificen...
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