Near Five Rocks Road (Avenue I) 0.4 miles south of South Beltline Highway West (State Highway 79H Spur).
[English] Marching to Zion Starting in 1846, the Mormon Trail to Utah followed the Platte River and passed by this area one half mile north in what is today downtown Scottsbluff. The Mormons — persecuted and . . . — — Map (db m310898) HM
On S Beltline Hwy E at U.S. 26, on the right when traveling north on S Beltline Hwy E.
Rebecca Winters, daughter of Gideon Burdick, a drummer boy in Washington’s army, was born in New York State in 1802. She was a pioneer in the Church of Latter Day Saints, being baptized with her husband Hiram in June 1833.
Membership in the . . . — — Map (db m86666) HM
On S Beltline Hwy E at U.S. 26, on the right when traveling north on S Beltline Hwy E.
From the late 1840s through the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 Mormons passed by here on their way to their “New Zion” in Utah. Starting from Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846, the first group of at least 13,000 Mormons crossed into Iowa to . . . — — Map (db m86779) HM
On S Beltline Hwy E at U.S. 26, on the right when traveling north on S Beltline Hwy E.
In memory of Rebecca Burdick wife of Hiram Winters. She died a faithful Latter Day Saint, Aug. 15, 1852, Aged 50 Yrs. While making that memorable journey across the plains with her people to find a new home in the far distant Salt Lake Valley, she . . . — — Map (db m88671) HM
