ROSEMONT

NAME: Rosemont COUNTY: Pima ROADS: 2WD LEGAL INFO: T18S, R16E CLIMATE: Mild winter, Hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall, spring

COMMENTS: Look for Rosemont Junction. REMAINS: A few tracks and a few mining remnants behind a fenced area.

Rosemont's post office was established September 27, 1894 and discontinued May 31, 1910. Rosemont owed its existence to a copper mine of the same name. The town had about 150 residents and its own smelter. The original owners, L.J. Rose and William B. McCleary, went heavily into debt and sold the mine to the Lewisohn brothers of New York City. They continued to work the mine for years until they played out. Today, nothing is really left of the town.

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