Hazen
ID: NV1905022801
Name(s) of People Lynched: William “Red” Wood
Number of People Lynched: 1
Race: White
Gender: Male
Lynching Date(s): 1905-02-28
Year Marker Erected:
Erected by: Nevada State Park System; Jeffrey Reichman, BSA.
City: Hazen
County: Churchill
State: Nevada
Marker Text: Hazen was named for William Babcock Hazen, who served under General Sherman in his “March to the Sea.” The town, established in 1903 to house laborers working on the Newlands Irrigation Project south of here, included hotels, saloons, brothels, churches, and schools. In 1905 the first train came through on the new routing to Tonopah. In 1906 the Southern Pacific Railroad built a large roundhouse here as well as a fine depot. In 1908 Hazen was nearly destroyed by fire. As a tough town, it had no peer in the state. Nevada’s last lynching occurred in Hazen when “Red” Wood was taken from the wooden jail and hanged on February 28, 1905.
Sources: https://www.hmdb.org