Jerome
Today a ghost town, Jerome was once a bona fide boomtown and the talk of the Territory. With some of the richest mines in the country, Jerome in its heyday pumped billions of dollars of copper, gold and silver into the U.S. economy of the late 1800s before growing labor unrest, wars, equivocating copper prices and economic depressions finally forced the mines closed in 1953. Home to the classically Southwestern Douglas Mansion, Jerome became a National Historic Landmark in 1976. For more information on Jerome, click here.