Jerome, AZ Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The former mining town of JEROME , high above the Verde Valley on US-89A about thirty miles south of Sedona, is conspicuous from quite a distance: an enormous letter "J" is etched deep into the hillside above it, and a large chunk of that hillside is missing altogether, having been blown apart for opencast copper mining . This land abounds in mineral wealth – thick veins of copper are interspersed with gold and silver, and an endless supply of limestone is still extracted for cement – but serious exploitation only started in 1876. The United Verde mine was partly financed by New Yorker Eugene … more »