Jerome, Arizona

These pictures are from Jerome, Arizona. This was the last stop on our 3-day trip to the Grand Canyon. We spent several hours here at the pub, gift shops, and part of the mine museum. The town in built on the side of a hill just over an hour from our house. It was a thriving mine (bronze i think) in the early 1900s. After about 1930, I believe, the mine was closed. The town went from a population of 20,000 down to 1,000 and the town really was never the same. They bill it as a ghost town, with a mine museum, ghost museums, and ghost stories. We ate and had some drinks at the Haunted Hamburger...a pretty cool place. Had to wait about 30 minutes for lunch. We had a great time and will definitely go back. Jerome had a lot of culture and a real eerie feel about it. Some of the people that lived/worked there looked like they had never left and had been there for over 50 years.