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Mormon Handcart Park

Iowa City, IA

A memorial park marks the staging area where handcart companies organized before beginning the difficult overland journey toward Utah in the 1850s. Interpretive signs connect suburban Iowa City to one of America's strangest migration experiments.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2007/07/remembering-iowa

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