Editing Hawthorne, Nevada (section)

==History==
The first permanent settlement at Hawthorne was established in 1880.<ref name="Walker">{{cite web | url=http://www.walkerlake.org/about/about_hawth.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412110032/http://www.walkerlake.org/about/about_hawth.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=12 April 2009 | title=About Hawthorne, NV | publisher=Walker Lake Working Group | access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref>

The townsite was selected in 1880 by H. M. Yerington, president of the [[Carson and Colorado Railroad]] Co. as a division and distribution site for the new railroad.<ref name=hmdb/>

The location was adjacent to the important Knapp's Station and Ferry Landing on the busy Esmeralda Toll Road from [[Wadsworth, Nevada|Wadsworth]] to [[Candelaria, Nevada|Candelaria]]. Connecting roads were built to all of the surrounding mining areas.<ref name=hmdb/>

H. M. Yerington named the new town "Hawthorne" after a lumberman, rancher, and law enforcement friend he knew in [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]]. The first train arrived on April 14, 1881, loaded with prospective buyers for the new town lots.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416200454/http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt2.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-16 |url-status=live | title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada | publisher=W.P.A. | author=Federal Writers' Project | year=1941 | pages=51}}</ref>

In 1883, Hawthorne took the Esmeralda County seat from declining Aurora but later lost it to booming [[Goldfield, Nevada|Goldfield]]. In 1911, it again became a county seat, this time for the new Mineral County.<ref name=hmdb>[https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=44197 Hawthorne]</ref><ref name="Walker" />