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Mormons, 1,400 Miles by Handcart from Iowa City

The Mecca at Salt Lake for converts to the Mormon Church brought over a thousand immigrants to the Iowa City train depot in 1856.

Source: Johnson County IAGenWeb Project, Saturday Postcards, Bob Hibbs

http://iagenweb.org/johnson/Postcard67.htm



 


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