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Jerome's history can be followed through the ways people recorded the town: a plat for selling lots, petitions about local government, and later maps of public infrastructure. These records serve different purposes. Together they offer a practical way to study a community whose early development was tied to irrigation, without reducing its history to one founding date. North Side Inn, Jerome, circa 1915. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, AL+CA 1513; public domain. Photo s …