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Pioneer Memorial Park

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

Humboldt County, Nevada

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

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