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The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,100 km) route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) traveled from 1846 to 1869. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System , known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds a number of sites as historically significant. This list is intended as a quick reference for these sites. The sites may or may not be owned by the church.
Map showing the westward exodus of the LDS Church between 1846 and 1869. Also shown is a portion of the route followed by the Mormon Battalion, which fought in the Mexican-American War, and the path followed by the handcart companies to the Mormon Trail.
A map of the Mormon belt, showing only the associated counties. Striped counties are contiguous to the corridor with a major Mormon population, but are not considered to be a part of the cardinal regions of their respective state.
Clayton's Guide, [1] Clayton's Emigrant Guide, [2] or as when published, The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide, [2] published by Missouri Republican Steam Power Press, Chambers & Knapp, 1848 [2] and written by William Clayton, was one of a number of very popular guidebooks written to support the westward expansion of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century when organized emigrant ...
The Sacred Grove is also suggested as a possible site where Smith showed the golden plates to Eight Witnesses in June 1829. [2] Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, said the event took place at a location near the Smith log home [3] "where the [Smith] family were in the habit of offering up their secret devotions to God" (Smith 1853, p. 140).
The Mormon corridor are the areas of western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are commonly called "Mormons". [1] In academic literature, the area is also commonly called the Mormon culture region.
The settlement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding area was achieved through moving from settlement to settlement until they made a permanent home in the Great Basin of the Rocky Mountains. In 1847, they trekked en masse across the great plains of the United States until they ...