Jerome Historic District

Jerome Historic District is a late 19th-century mining town with buildings scattered across steep mountain slopes that preserve the architecture of the mining era. The streets wind steeply uphill, and most houses date from when copper was actively extracted here.

The district arose in the late 19th century as a copper mining center and quickly grew into a mining town with hundreds of residents. After the mines closed in the mid-20th century, the place was nearly abandoned until it was later rediscovered as a historical site.

The district shows how miners lived through preserved homes, shops, and museums that reveal daily life during the mining years. You can see how the steep streets shaped community life and which buildings mattered most to residents.

The site is accessible during the day and can be explored on foot, but the steep streets require good shoes and some physical fitness. There is limited parking at the edge of town, from where most buildings and museums are reachable.

Beneath the village runs a huge network of abandoned mine shafts and tunnels, partly made visible through models and preserved entrances. One shaft went so deep that it caused ground subsidence in some houses.