"I'll admit. Hazen isn't much to look at, and there isn't a whole lot here to warrant a stop. In a dusty, raggedy, semi-ghost town like this one amidst some very bone-dry, bleak, and intimidating surroundings on the edge of the Forty Mile Desert ... it's easy to see how this would've made an an ideal rest stop for the weary traveler." -- August 2007

Along US 50 ALT, 12 miles east of Fernley

Churchill
39.563439, -119.048006

Original Date Visited: 8/1/07
Signed: Both lanes of US 50 Alt

Did You Know ...

Since 1985 the Hazen Market has been featured in three Hollywood films? The most notable of these is the 1989 film The Wizard, as Fred Savage and Luke Edwards run from behind the store to jump aboard a Hostess Truck. A following overhead view pans over the store to view the Forty Mile Desert and even the skyline of Fernley on the horizon.

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Street View

Here's what you'll see!

Exact Description:
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.

COVERED IN MY I-80 ROAD TRIP

COVERED IN MY US 50 ROAD TRIP

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