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The Jerome Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining community of Jerome, Arizona.The town was founded as a mining camp associated with copper deposits that were mined from the late 19th century until 1953.
Jerome (Images of America: Arizona). Midge Steuber and the Jerome Historical Society Archives. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738558820; Home Sweet Jerome: Death and Rebirth of Arizona's Richest Copper Mining City.. Diane Sward Rapaport. Johnson Books. ISBN 978-1555664541
The metals produced by United Verde and UVX, the other big mine in Jerome, were said to be worth more than $1 billion. [23] [b] According to geologists Lon Abbott and Terri Cook, the combined copper deposits of Jerome were among the richest ever found. [25] Jerome had a post office by 1883. It added a schoolhouse in 1884 and a public library in ...
In Arizona, copper mining has been a major industry since the 19th century. In 2007, Arizona was the leading copper-producing state in the country, producing 750 thousand metric tons of copper, valued at $5.54 billion. Arizona's copper production was 60% of the total for the United States. Copper mining also produces gold and silver as ...
Mining camp. Site under Mittry Lake: La Paz: La Paz: 1862: 1875: Neglected site: Site of the first major gold strike along the Colorado River. Steamboat landing to 1866, Yuma County seat until 1871. Lochiel: Santa Cruz: c. 1880: 1986: Neglected site: Metcalf: Greenlee: 1889: 1936: Neglected site: A copper mining town, died after the ore ran out ...
In 1888, Clark bought the United Verde Copper Company mine in Jerome, Arizona. The mine was located in the Black Hills in the Verde Valley. He decided to move the smelter further down the hill in 1912. Clark planned and built Arizona's first master-planned community for his employees. The town, which was named Clarkdale, had a population of ...
A Native American group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world's largest copper mines, a last ...
The UVX Mining Co., owned by James S. Douglas, Jr., operated the United Verde Extension (UVX) Mine at Jerome and built a copper smelter complex at Clemenceau (Cottonwood) in the U.S. state of Arizona. The complex, operational from 1917 through 1937, [1] is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [3]