Jerome & Sedona
May 6, 2013 16:39:31 GMT
Post by fgrsk8r1970 on May 6, 2013 16:39:31 GMT
Since my dad is visiting from Germany we try to find short trips on the weekend when I am off work to do and this Saturday we decided to drive to Jerome & Sedona, as it had been 11 years since he, my late mom and I went there. First a little background for you about Jerome - courtesy of Wikipedia:
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills in Arizona. Built in the late 19th century it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444.
The town owes its existence mainly to two ore bodies that formed about 1.75 billion years ago along a ring fault in the caldera of an undersea volcano. Tectonic plate movements, plate collisions, uplift, deposition, erosion, and other geologic processes eventually exposed the tip of one of the ore bodies and pushed the other close to the surface, both near Jerome. In the late 19th century, the United Verde Mine, developed by William A. Clark, extracted ore bearing copper, gold, silver, and other metals from the larger of the two. In total, the copper deposits discovered in the vicinity of Jerome were among the richest ever found in any time or place.
Jerome made news in 1917, when strikes involving the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) led to the expulsion at gunpoint of about 60 IWW members, who were loaded on a cattle car and shipped west.
As the ore deposits became exhausted, the mines closed, and the population dwindled to fewer than 100 by the mid-1950s. Efforts to save the town from oblivion succeeded when residents turned to tourism and retail sales. Jerome became a National Historic Landmark in 1967. In the early 21st century, Jerome has art galleries, coffee houses, restaurants, and a state park and local museum devoted to mining history.
We only drove through, but stopped to take some photos. Coming in from Prescott Valley it is a very very curvy (but scenic) drive.
The old Connor Hotel
side view
The town is popular with bikers because it's a fun/curvy drive and there are lots of cool bars and restaurants:
This gift shop used to be an old theater:
Love the old projector outside the door:
And on the way out I had to think of K2 and nycgirl in the Africa thread when I saw this Thistle and caught the bee with it:
As I mentioned, we didn't spend much time in Jerome as it was too early to have a beer
and our destination was actually Red Rock Crossing in Sedona...
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills in Arizona. Built in the late 19th century it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444.
The town owes its existence mainly to two ore bodies that formed about 1.75 billion years ago along a ring fault in the caldera of an undersea volcano. Tectonic plate movements, plate collisions, uplift, deposition, erosion, and other geologic processes eventually exposed the tip of one of the ore bodies and pushed the other close to the surface, both near Jerome. In the late 19th century, the United Verde Mine, developed by William A. Clark, extracted ore bearing copper, gold, silver, and other metals from the larger of the two. In total, the copper deposits discovered in the vicinity of Jerome were among the richest ever found in any time or place.
Jerome made news in 1917, when strikes involving the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) led to the expulsion at gunpoint of about 60 IWW members, who were loaded on a cattle car and shipped west.
As the ore deposits became exhausted, the mines closed, and the population dwindled to fewer than 100 by the mid-1950s. Efforts to save the town from oblivion succeeded when residents turned to tourism and retail sales. Jerome became a National Historic Landmark in 1967. In the early 21st century, Jerome has art galleries, coffee houses, restaurants, and a state park and local museum devoted to mining history.
We only drove through, but stopped to take some photos. Coming in from Prescott Valley it is a very very curvy (but scenic) drive.
The old Connor Hotel
side view
The town is popular with bikers because it's a fun/curvy drive and there are lots of cool bars and restaurants:
This gift shop used to be an old theater:
Love the old projector outside the door:
And on the way out I had to think of K2 and nycgirl in the Africa thread when I saw this Thistle and caught the bee with it:
As I mentioned, we didn't spend much time in Jerome as it was too early to have a beer
and our destination was actually Red Rock Crossing in Sedona... 
