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LDS emigrants considered the area rich in agricultural promise, although food was very scarce during the early years and illness was common. At its height, the community had over 2,000 inhabitants, but generally averaged about 700 Latter-day Saints. It was there that the
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set out to find a new home in the West. On May 18, 1846, Nauvoo exiles established a permanent camp and resting place on the middle fork (Twelve-Mile Creek) of the Grand River on
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1891 illustration of a monument at what is now the Mount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve
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first called upon the Latter-day Saints to furnish volunteers to serve in the
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was a semi-permanent settlement or way station from 1846 to 1852 along the
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The site of Mount Pisgah is now marked by a nine-acre (3.6 ha)
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Discovering Mormon Trails: New York to California, 1831–1868
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41°02′19″N 94°06′47″W / 41.038586°N 94.113028°W / 41.038586; -94.113028
1891 illustration of a monument at what is now the Mount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve
Mount Pisgah is located in Iowa
41°2′18.91″N 94°6′46.9″W / 41.0385861°N 94.113028°W / 41.0385861; -94.113028
Mormon Trail
Garden Grove
Council Bluffs
U.S. state
Iowa
Thayer
Union County
Helaman Pratt
Joseph Smith
Latter Day Saint movement
Brigham Young
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Nauvoo, Illinois
Potawatomi
apostle
Parley P. Pratt
Moses
Orson

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