Jerome State Historic Park

The Jerome State Historic Park is a state park, consisting of the property and buildings of the Douglas Mansion in Jerome. This is one of the largest adobe adobe buildings in Arizona, where a museum is housed with a thematic focus mining history. At times, was in Jerome 's largest copper mine in the Arizona Territory.

The Jerome State Historic Park is located at Arizona State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott in Yavapai County of the U.S. state of Arizona. The 1 acre site is located at an altitude of 1597 meters.

History

1876 ​​put three prospectors from their claims and claimed the rich copper deposits. They sold in 1883 to the United Verde Mining Company. The first dwellings of miners consisted only of boards and canvas tarps and the settlement was named in honor of Eugene Jerome. The cost of transporting the ore mine soon exceeded the profits and after less than two years, the Company had to cease production.

The new owner William A. Clark, one of the three known copper barons of Butte in Montana, had to create the necessary vision and funding to 1911, the Verde Valley Railroad line and thus to reduce transportation costs. Beginning of the 20th century, the United Verde copper mine in the most profitable in the Arizona territory. With this success, enough capital was in Jerome to build brick building, two churches, an opera house, a school and other public facilities.

1912 acquired James S. Douglas, the Little Daisy Mine and built on it. In 1916 there were two very rich ore mines in Jerome. The highlight of the copper production in 1929 until the Great Depression and mines with lower ore grade negatively altered the situation. The Little Daisy mine was closed in 1938. While the Phelps Dodge Corporation took over in 1935 the United Verde but profit declines, however, led in 1953 to the end of mining in Jerome.

The Douglas Mansion was built in 1916 designed and built to accommodate mining officials, investors and members of the family of James S. Douglas as a hotel. The facilities included a wine cellar, billiard room, paneled with marble showers, a steam heating and a central vacuum. The building itself is built of Adobelehmziegeln that have been produced locally.

Memorial

1962 suitable Lewis and James Douglas, the sons of James S. Douglas, the family estate Douglas Mansion and 2.43 acre land, to make it as a visitor center and museum in a state park available. The Douglas Mansion was converted to Douglas Memorial Mining Museum. On October 16, 1965, the Jerome State Historic Park was opened as the fifth State Park in Arizona.

In the outdoor area include mine car and a five- stamp mill tempe liges, which served to crush the lumps of ore, issued. A picnic area is affiliated. The Douglas Mansion was recorded in 1972 under the number 72.0016 million to the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona.

The Jerome State Historic Park was closed on 26 February 2009 for renovations on the building. In January 2010 it was announced that was delayed for financial reasons, the re-opening. Even more state parks in Arizona were closed to the public. Thanks to a grant from the Yavapai County in October 2010, he was again five days a week open.