Jerome

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.

Author: Midge Steuber, Jerome Historical Society Archives
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 10/20/2008
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.48w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780738558820
ISBN10: 0738558826
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional (see also Travel | Pictorials)
- Travel | Pictorials (see also Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regio