Dr. William Cogswell Hazen, an early pioneer of what is now Prairie County, was born in 1806 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He spent his early adulthood in Covington, Tennessee as a plantation owner and physician before moving with his family and . . . — — Map (db m294943) HM
John Kocourek was born in 1862 in Bohemia. He immigrated to Chicago in 1881, where he married and had three children. Around 1890, the family moved to Hazen, Arkansas, where Kocourek established himself as a land agent. Through his promotional . . . — — Map (db m294941) HM
The Central Arkansas & Eastern (CA&E) began in 1901 as a short line railroad for transporting timber products from Lonoke County to the Little Rock market. It expanded to Stuttgart and Hazen in 1911 as rice became a major export of the Grand . . . — — Map (db m294945) HM
