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| | Jerome, AZ - Local Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Jerome experienced several disasters: fires, epidemics of typhus and scarlet fever, and a landslide provoked by dynamite blasts, destroying many buildings and moving the old jailhouse more than 200 feet downhill, where it remains to this day. |
 | | Nevertheless the town prospered, and in the 1920s its population was estimated between 4,000 and 5,000, making it one of the largest in Arizona. |
 | | Today, Jerome's population has stabilized at slightly under 500, and it has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the U. Department of the Interior, attracting an estimated 200,000 visitors each year. |
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