
During the 1950s, it was decided that the story of the mining town of Jerome needed to be told to the world. While Jerome had great success, it also persevered through great hardships. Fires, collapses, landslides, and economics were all things that had brought Jerome to its knees on many occasions. Yet, Jerome still stands in all its glory, nestled into the side of a mountain, in central Arizona. It's the town in the cliffs, seen from the city of Cottonwood and Clarkdale below. It was decided that building a state park, that could tell its history, would be the…