Mormon Handcart Brigade Camp – 1856
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N 41° 40.716 W 091° 35.137
15T E 617724 N 4615058
One of the stopping points for the Mormons traveling to Utah.
Waymark Code: WM9M2N
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member MNSearchers
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At this location, 1300 Mormon converts detrained and stayed to build handcarts for their continued voyage cross-country to Salt Lake City.

The Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution placed this marker in 1936.
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