Pioneer Memorial Park
Pioneer Memorial Park Overview
This part of the cemetery is the last resting place of Frank Baud and other pioneers who founded Winnemucca.
Baud arrived in 1863 and is one of the men credited with naming the town Winnemucca after the famous Northern Paiute chieftain.
Category
- Cemetery
- Native American
- Person
Marker Type
Stone
Nevada Historical Marker Number
Pioneer Memorial Park is Nevada Historical Marker #2.
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County
GPS Coordinates
40.978808, -117.741942
Nevada Historical Marker Transcription
This part of the Pioneer Cemetery includes the last resting place of Frank Baud and other of the pioneers who founded Winnemucca, earlier known as French Ford. Baud arrived in 1863 and is one of the men credited with naming the town Winnemucca after the famous Northern Paiute chieftain.
Baud came with Louis Lay from California to work on the Humboldt canal, a project headed by Dr. A. Gintz and Joseph Ginaca who devised the plan to link Golconda and Mill City by means of a 90-mile canal and provide water for the mills in the area. It was never completed. Baud later became a merchant, helped build the Winnemucca Hotel with Louis and Theophile Lay, was the first postmaster, and gave the town a schoolhouse before his death in 1868.
CENTENNIAL MARKER No. 2
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE
References Used
Pioneer Memorial Park