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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM5C_sullivan-apartments_Jerome-AZ.html
Built in 1917, the first floor of this four-story apartment, housed the Independent Meat Company. A passage was built from the cooler of the meat company up to the apartments to allow cool air to pass into them. Originally there were nine apartmen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM5B_laura-williams-memorial-park_Jerome-AZ.html
Laura Williams owned the antique museum which housed numerous artifacts from Jerome. Laura was one of the founding members of the Jerome Historical Society and served as the Secretary/Treasurer from 1953-1974. She was an employee of Newmont Explor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4Q_bartlett-hotel_Jerome-AZ.html
Before the Bartlett Hotel, the Grandview Hotel, a wooden structure built in 1895 stood here as the first two-story building in Jerome. It had rooms for dances, dining and sleeping. In 1898 the structure was destroyed by fire. The Bartlett Hotel wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4P_the-saloon_Jerome-AZ.html
In 1896, one of the first wooden structures built in Jerome occupied this site and was known as "The Saloon". The Saloon building survived two years before succumbing to fire, which destroyed most of Jerome in 1898. The structure was rebuilt only …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4O_paul-and-jerrys-saloon_Jerome-AZ.html
This saloon was built in 1899 to replace the original structure that was destroyed by fire. It operated as the Senate Saloon with a Chinese restaurant downstairs. It soon became the largest gambling establishment in the southwest. During prohibiti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4N_whitten-printers_Jerome-AZ.html
Carl E.C. Whitten, graduate of Jerome High School and son of immigrant parents, worked for the Prescott Evening Courier before moving back to Jerome in 1927. Carl purchased the Verde Copper News which began in Jerome in 1917. He purchased the news…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4H_mine-museum-fashion-saloon_Jerome-AZ.html
The mine museum, one of Jerome's oldest commercial buildings, was purchased by J.S. Hoover and A.C. Cordiner from G.A. Stoney in 1896. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1898. An architect from Los Angles built the present building with steel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4F_hotel-connor_Jerome-AZ.html
This native stone and brick building was built in 1898. David Connor, proprietor, was an Irish-American who originally owned the Stone Saloon on the site of this hotel. In 1897 he added the second floor and called his building the Hotel Connor. De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4E_husbands-alley_Jerome-AZ.html
With Jerome's rough and tumble early days came the red-light district and prostitutes. Much of the red-light district was located on Hull Avenue, the road below Main Street. In 1913, reformers helped pass an ordinance restricting houses of ill fam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM4C_jennies-place_Clarkdale-AZ.html
This building was originally a brothel known as Jennie's Place. It was built in 1898 by Legendary Madam Belgian Jennie Bauters, who came to Jerome from Belgium in 1896.
This was her third building on this site. The first burned down in 1897. H…