By John Sterr of the Jerome Historical Society
The town we now know as Jerome began in 1876 when Angus McKinnon and Marion A. Ruffner officially recorded their mining claims in the area. As mining increased over the next two decades, a camp sprang up to house, feed and serve the growing population of mines. Mr. Eugene Murray Jerome and Mrs. Paulina Von Scheidau Jerome of New York City secured capital investment in the copper camp. It was named Jerome in 1882.
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