Description: Jerome, Arizona, Images of America, Paperback The rugged mining community of Jerome has thrived by the hard work and hard play of tough men and women pitted against an equally hard mountain. William Murray solicited funding for the Black Hills mining camp from his uncle, a New York lawyer and financier named Eugene Murray Jerome, who reportedly was not interested. However, his independent wife was delighted at the prospect and raised $200,000 in development capital for Murray. In 1882, Frederick F. Thomas, Jerome's first postmaster, named the mining camp "Jerome" in honor of the family. Jerome boomed, ultimately reaching a reported population peak of 15,000 in the 1920s, then dwindling to a ghost town after the mines closed. In 1967, the town was designated a National Historic Landmark, and today it is a flourishing artist community, as well as a motorcycle and travel destination.
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738558820
Book Title: Jerome
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Jerome Historical Society Archives, Midge Steuber
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Mining, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Photography, Technology & Engineering, Travel, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages