This is the Audrey Headframe Park which surrounds the Audrey shaft of the Union Verdey Copper Mine in Jerome Arizona. During the early to mid 1900s the mine produced over 2 billion in copper.

You are standing under the headframe of the Audrey shaft at the Union Verdey Copper Mine outside of Jerome, Arizona. The head frame provided support for the machinery that was used to lower miners and equipment 1900 feet into the mine as well as p...

You are standing at the top of a 1900 foot drop streight down into the Aubry shaft of the Union Verde Copper Mine with nothing more than about 2 inches of reinforced glass between you and a fall into the earth.

When the Union Verdey Smelter came online in 1914 there was a need for more power so they contracted the Arizona Power Company (TAPCO) to build the Irving Turbine And Generator which came online in 1916 at a cost of $135,000. Water diverted from t...