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
Hazen began in the early 1870s as a small refueling station at William Hazen’s place on Arkansas’s oldest railroad line, the Memphis & Little Rock. The settlement grew as the station became a regional transportation hub for agricultural goods, like . . . — — Map (db m294944) HM
