Mormon Trail Monument
| Mormon Trail Monument | |
|---|---|
 Mormon Trail Monument | |
  Location within California | |
| 34°21′05″N 117°31′37″W / 34.3514055°N 117.5269861°W | |
| Location | near Phelan, California |
| History | |
| Built | 1937 |
| Reference no. | 577 |
The Mormon Trail Monument was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.577). The monument is to remember the 500 Mormon pioneers who came to the San Bernardino Valley in June 1851, establishing Fort San Bernardino. The monument is near Phelan, California in San Bernardino County, California. The Monument was built in 1937 and is on California State Route 138, 3.6 Miles West of Interstate 15. In 1857, about half the Mormons were told to return to Utah during the Utah War.[1][2][3][4][5][6] the Mormon War,[7] or the Mormon Rebellion[8][9][10][11]
See also
- California Historical Landmarks in San Bernardino County, California
- Mormon Road from Salt Lake City to Southern California
- Mormon Trail from Illinois to Salt Lake City
- Santa Fe And Salt Lake Trail Monument
- Stoddard-Waite Monument
References
- ↑ Marker database 577
- ↑ California Historic Parks, Fort Benson
- ↑ militarymuseum.org, Historic California Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields: Posts at San Bernardino, by Colonel Herbert M. Hart, USMC
- ↑ Le Roy Reuben Hafen; Ann Woodbury Hafen (1958). The Utah expedition, 1857–1858: a documentary account of the United States military movement under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and the resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion. A. H. Clark Co. ISBN 9780870620355. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ William Preston Johnston; Albert Sidney Johnston (1878). The life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. D. Appleton. p. 207. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- ↑ Poll, Richard D., and Ralph W. Hansen. "'Buchanan's Blunder' The Utah War, 1857–1858", in Military Affairs 25, 3 (1961): 121–131
- ↑ "The Mormon War." (PDF), New York Times, 19 May 1858
- ↑ "The Mormon Rebellion" (PDF), New York Times, 16 February 1858
- ↑ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1889), History of Utah: 1540–1886, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. XXVI, San Francisco: The History Company, pp. 562–563, LCCN 07018413, OCLC 4694895
- ↑ "The History Cooperative | Redirected: The Western Historical Quarterly now at JSTOR". www.historycooperative.org.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Brigham Young and Wild Bill Hickman", Salt Lake City Messenger, Newsletter #77, February 1991, Utah Lighthouse Ministry