A history of Jerome,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Jerome from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The small town was formerly named Blissville after a lumber company who established the sawmill town. During World War II, Jerome was home to a Japanese American internment camp, the Jerome War Relocation Center (1942–1944), designed by Edward F. Neild of Shreveport, Louisiana, and later converted into a prison camp for captured German soldiers.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Jerome’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPost office, 1939: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Jerome, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Jerome
1 place in Jerome is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Post office (1939) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.