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In 1962 the sons of Jimmy Douglas donated the Douglas Mansion to the State of Arizona. The Jerome State Historic Park opened in 1965. It has continued to develop its exhibits and expand its collection of historic artifacts and archival material. The park's mission is to interpret the history of the Douglas family and the history of Jerome in ...
The Douglas Mansion was built in 1916 and is located in Little Daisy Street. [29] The Hotel Connor was built in 1898 and is located on the intersection of Main Street and Jerome Ave. [29] [31] Jennie's Place was a brothel built in 1898 and owned by Madam Belgiam Jennie. [29] [32] The Jerome City Hall built c. 1890 and located on Main Street. [29]
The historic district encompasses most of the built area within the town's municipal limits, as well as mining-related resources outside those limits, and the Douglas Mansion, the centerpiece of Jerome State Historic Park. The community retains much of the look and feel of an early 20th-century mining town, with buildings perched along the ...
In 1962, James Douglas's heirs donated the Douglas mansion, above the UVX mine site, to the State of Arizona, which used it to create Jerome State Historic Park. [33] By sponsoring music festivals, historic-homes tours, celebrations, and races, the community attracted visitors and new businesses, which in the 21st century include art galleries ...
The life of working with dead bodies has been the subject of some of the more popular recent television series in recent years, from CBS's CSI to HBO's Six Feet Under. But what is it really like ...
The Douglas Mansion in Jerome. In 1912, Douglas returned to central Arizona, where he took an option on the United Verde Extension (UVX) property, a speculative venture to find the down-faulted extension of the great "United Verde" ore body near Jerome, Arizona. In 1914, with funds near exhaustion, an exploration drift cut bonanza copper ore ...
A woman working for Wells Fargo in Arizona died at work and was found four days later, authorities have confirmed. Denise Prudhomme, 60, last clocked in at the Wells Fargo in Tempe at 7 a.m. on ...
The data — analyzed by researchers Shameek Rakshit and Cynthia Cox, from the nonprofit Peterson Center on Healthcare in New York City and KFF — revealed that 20.4 million Americans have unpaid ...