Jerome, Arizona has a wild and wonderful history as a booming mining town in the early 1900s turned ghost town turned modern-day artist community. It's been said that the town is named after a New York lawyer and financier named Eugene Jerome, a first cousin to Jenny Churchill—Winston's mom. But that isn't precisely true, according to the “Images of America” series on Jerome written by Midge Steuber and the Jerome Historical Society Archives. They report that Eugene Jerome “reportedly wa
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