The Virginia City Agency of the Bank of California was established on this site on September 6, 1864. Here miners obtained capital that financed the most spectacular boom in mining history. Nearly one billion dollars in gold and silver was mined from the neighboring hills, and much of it passed through this bank to be stored in the vault now on display inside. The bank also financed mining operations through other Nevada agencies at Gold Hill, Treasure City, Hamilton, and White Pine. The Virginia City Agency, the last of the Nevada offices, was discontinued on July 1, 1917, after recording a permanent milestone in the history of the West. The head office of the Bank of California today is located, as it was then, at 400 California Street in San Francisco.