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Jerome / Linda Helms.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helms, Linda., Author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jerome (Idaho)--History--Pictorial works.
- Jerome (Idaho).
- Jerome (Idaho)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2012]
- Summary:
- On June 30, 1907, Robert McCollum, Jerome Kuhn, and two other men rode in a horse-drawn wagon up the Blue Lakes Grade from Ira B. Perrine’s Snake River Canyon ranch. Looking for the ideal spot to form a new town, they traveled 10 miles northwest through the sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho. By nightfall, they stopped to camp. The next morning, they awoke to a beautiful mountain vista and decided they had found the perfect spot for a town. Their campsite became the crossroads of West to East Main Streets and North to South Lincoln Streets--the exact center of Jerome, Idaho. From that humble beginning, Jerome has grown to 10,000 people with many sustained businesses and enterprises begun by new pioneers.
- Contents:
- The building of a new community
- The early schools
- The early religious community
- Family life and socialization
- Irrigation
- Blue Lakes Ranch
- Jerome's first farmers
- Japanese-American Internment Camp.
- OCLC:
- 885208225
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