Green plaque № 57337

Omaha, United States

No. 131 Erected June 1, 1953 Mormon pioneer Memorial Bridge This bridge is on the Mormon Pioneer Trail from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Rocky Mountains. Driven from their homes by mobs, many of the dispossessed Mormon people crossed the Mississippi river on the ice in February, 1846. From these refugees

five hundred volunteers for the Mexican war left here on the longest infantry March in recorded history. Winter quarters was established in the West Bank of the Missouri river, and a ferry was operat

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