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Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona.Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, Jerome is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level.
Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, US, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County. A museum is located in the old Douglas Mansion.
The Jerome Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining community of Jerome, Arizona.The town was founded as a mining camp associated with copper deposits that were mined from the late 19th century until 1953.
The members Jerome Historical Society do not have the ability to deny a demolition permit. Therefore, the owner of a property, even if it is listed either in the National Register of Historic Places, may demolish the historical property if he or she so wishes. According to Jim McPherson, Arizona Preservation Foundation Board President:
The Yavapai Supergroup is extensively exposed in Yavapai County, Arizona, from which it takes its name. Exposures are found from the Jerome — Prescott area southwest to Mingus Mountain and in other parts of the Arizona transition zone. The supergroup contains a variety of lithologies (rock types). [3]
All around Arizona, rocks hold remains of life that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. When people think fossils, dinosaurs typically come to mind – but that’s only one part of the picture.
Arizona's oldest rocks overall are metamorphosed volcanic rocks, including basalt and rhyolite and related sedimentary rocks, that now constitute the bottom of the Grand Canyon and formed beginning 1.8 billion years ago. The Verde district at Jerome, in Yavapai County also preserves rocks from this period.
Granite Mountain is composed of Paleoproterozoic biotite granodiorite to granite that is known by geologist as the Mint Wash Granodiorite. [5] [6] The Mint Wash Granodiorite consists of medium to coarse-grained, weakly to strongly porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of gray to pink potassium feldspar up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in length and as much as eight percent biotite that is less than 8 mm (0. ...