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MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
Historic Sites View Finders
View No. 1: Camp Site:
The viewer on your left is directed toward the historic campsite at the south end of the valley. This was a traditional stopping place for pack mule trains traversing the Old Spanish Trail. At this site, the Baker-Fancher Train camped in 1857 and on September 7 the initial siege of the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place. Stone monuments with plaques were erected in 1859 and 1932 and a new plaque in 1990.
View No. 2: Massacre Site:
Travelers entered Mountain Meadows from the north crossed the rim of the basin near the location seen through the viewer on your right. Pack trains stayed to the far (west) side of the valley, buy wagons chose a less marshy route nearer this side. Most of the Baker-Fancher Party were killed on September 11, 1857, as they were being escorted out of the valley heading north. The viewer locates the approximate site of the massacre and of an 1859 stone monument marking one of the burial sites.
The piece of stone embedded in the concrete walkway behind you is native granite from Little Rock, Arkansas |