JEROME, Arizona – In a few short years, Jerome went from a billion-dollar mining town to one of the nation’s biggest ghost towns. And then it reinvented itself again, as a tourist town and artist hub.
An old mining town clings to the side of a mountain. It is a lost land of concrete bones, a skeleton from a different age. Once hailed as “the wickedest town in the West,” it set aside its rowdy ways.