GOLD KING MINE AND GHOST TOWN
Ghost Town Museum — Jerome, Arizona
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/gold-king-mine-and-ghost-town-jerome-arizona/

Mining-camp museum at former Haynes.

Gold King Mine and Ghost Town is a ghost-town museum in Jerome, Arizona. Mining-camp museum at former Haynes. It sits in the archive under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

The Gold King Mine sits just outside Jerome, on ground that produced the camp's founding irony: a shaft sunk twelve hundred seventy feet after copper struck a rich pocket of gold instead. The little camp that served it was called Haynes, and for a while it worked both metals in the shadow of Jerome's far greater bonanza.
The mine's modern identity is the Robertson family's doing. Beginning in 1981, Don Robertson assembled an open-air ghost town on the property — buildings brought in board by board from dying camps across the region — around the surviving mine infrastructure, including a 1914 gas-powered sawmill still in working condition.

A GHOST TOWN BUILT OF OTHER GHOST TOWNS
The result is curated and crowded: relocated cabins, a dentist's office, mining machinery, and a private collection on the order of a hundred old vehicles — Studebakers, Harley-Davidsons, and the rest — scattered through the yard as a roadside museum with a working shaft at its center.
The file keeps the source's own candor: the tourism writeup itself notes the site may not be haunted, and no claim is filed. What the archive records is a double artifact — a real 1,270-foot copper shaft that lucked into gold, wrapped in a ghost town assembled, deliberately, from the bones of others.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Site preserves a sawmill and former community buildings. Gold King Mine and Ghost Town's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. The record appears in 'Arizona’s Ghost Town Getaways'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Arizona’s Ghost Town Getaways — Visit Arizona
  https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/arizonas-ghost-town-getaways

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