Alazon, Nevada
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Alazon is an extinct town in Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
History
Alazon was a non-agency station at the east end of the combined Southern Pacific Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad tracks.{{cite book |title=Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary |first=Helen S. |last=Carlson |year=1985 |isbn= 9780874174038 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GyVDwAAQBAJ&q=alazon |access-date=April 1, 2020}} In the early 1900s, Alazon consisted of a school, a section house and a homes for railroad employees.{{cite news |title=Wells |newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal |date=April 27, 2014 | page=D2 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47866658/wells-nevada-and-alazon/ |access-date=April 2, 2020}} In 1940, Alazon had about ten inhabitants.{{cite book | url=http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt1.pdf | title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada | publisher=W.P.A. | author=Federal Writers' Project | year=1941 | pages=21}}
In 1948, Richard Stewart, a railroad worker based at Alazon, was murdered by his friend and co-worker Richard Lindley Boudreau (aka Richard Bays). Boudreau was sentenced to death, though his sentence was later commuted to life.
The station was discontinued in 1956.{{cite web | url=http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/alazon.htm | title=Alazon | publisher=ghosttowns.com | accessdate=10 April 2018}} In 1957, Southern Pacific Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad completed a switchover at Alazon, where all westbound traffic traveled 181 miles on the Southern Pacific rails from Alazon to Weso (near Winnemucca) and all eastbound traffic traveled on the Western Pacific rails from Weso to Alazon.{{cite news |title=Alazon Switchover Change is Completed by Railroads |newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal |date=February 6, 1957 |page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47867391/alazon-switchover-change-is-completed/ |access-date=April 2, 2020}} The switchover configuration had been in operation during World War I and tested again for three years in the 1950s. After the switchover, only section crews and their families resided at Alazon.
References
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{{Elko County, Nevada}}
Category:Ghost towns in Elko County, Nevada
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