We drove to Jerome which was a mining town that looked like its was a town stuck on the side of a mountain. It was now an arts and crafts town with lots of stores selling lots of local artists crafts – pictures, pottery, jewelry, hand painted and printed cards, etc. Of course, wee only bought taffy and kettle corn (food and sweets being primary needs).
It used to be a copper mining camp. The old mining shaft is still there. They had a glass floor over it so you could look down the 1,900 feet to the bottom. We took our picture in the old elevator that they took miners up and down in. Fortunately, it doesn’t still work. There is also a museum of the mining operations on site. There was also an old “sliding jail”. It was actually their jail but over the years it had slid down the mountain to it’s present place. Old ghost stories abounded about the “guests” as well as when it slid. The town is two streets with a concentration of shops and hotels. Fun and different from what our main plans were.
