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2 unusual facts about Mormon pioneers


Compromise of 1850

During the deadlock of four years, the Second Party System broke up, Mormon pioneers settled Utah, the California Gold Rush settled northern California, and New Mexico under a federal military government turned back Texas's attempt to assert control over territory Texas claimed as far west as the Rio Grande.

Florence School

The first school in the Florence-area was built in what was then called Cutler's Park by Mormon pioneers in the late 1840s.


Brooklyn ship

Brooklyn, a ship taken to San Francisco by Mormon pioneers.

Edward Stevenson

Stevenson settled in Salt Lake City with the first group of Mormon pioneers in 1847, and spent the first five years there getting established, and traveling Utah with Brigham Young and other church authorities to help oversee the establishment of several new settlements, before leaving on one of his missions in 1852.

Margaret Blair Young

Her most recent works are a fictional trilogy of historical fiction about Black Mormon pioneers titled Standing on the Promises, co-authored with Darius Gray.

Stirling, Alberta

Stirling Settler Days (July), after Stirling's founding on May 5, 1899, the 24th of July, previously known as "Pioneer Day" & now called "Stirling Settler Days", was celebrated to mark the Mormon pioneers' arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.

What of the Mormons?

As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mormon pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Hinckley had been asked by church president George Albert Smith to write a book that would introduce the LDS Church to non-members.


see also

Sea Trek

Sea Trek 2001, a 2001 project to commemorate the exodus of Mormon pioneers from Europe during the 19th century