Cherry Creek Camp - Parker, CO - Colorado Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

"The first Latter-day Saints in the area that is now Colorado arrived in 1846. A company of 43 emigrants from Mississippi who were trying to meet Brigham Young's pioneer company along the Platte River discovered that he had been forced to wait at Winter Quarters. The Mississippi saints, already in western Nebraska and needing a place to camp for the winter, consulted a fur trapper who recommended Fort Pueblo near the headwaters of the Arkansas River. In August of 1846, they arrived in the vicinity of the fort and began building cabins and other necessary structures.

The following month, a detachment of Mormon Battalion family members who had accompanied the soldiers was sent to the Pueblo settlement to spend the winter. By year's end, two other groups from the Battalion consisting of the laundresses and men too sick to continue on to California had also arrived at Pueblo.

In June of 1847, a number of the saints who had spent the winter at Pueblo met Brigham Young's company at Fort Laramie and accompanied them into the Salt Lake Valley. Later that year, Elder Amasa Lyman of the Quorum of the Twelve was assigned to go to Pueblo to bring the remainder of the saints who had been waiting there to go to the Salt Lake Valley, effectively ending the presence of the Church in Colorado. ... (from (visit link) )

Group or Groups Responsible for Placement: Daughters of Utah County or City: Parker Date Dedicated: 2010 Check here for Web link(s) for additional information: [Web Link]

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