Discover Jerome’s History in New Book

Oct. 1, 2012 - PRLog -- New to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Jerome by local author Linda Helms. This pictorial history boasts more than 200 vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

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.

Highlights of Jerome include:
•   The Building of a New Community
•   Family Life and Socialization
•   Irrigation
•   Blue Lakes Ranch
•   Japanese-American Internment Camp

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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