Mormon Battalion Monument

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"Following a few days at Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 9-18, 1846), the Mormon Battalion resumed their march toward the Pacific Ocean. Now, however, there was no Santa Fe Trail to follow. Under the command of their new leader, Col. Philip St. George Cook, they now had to blaze their own trail through basically uncharted wilderness. It was near present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico that the Battalion began following the Rio Grande which runs out of Colorado heading south. The monument seen here is situated near that site. This twenty-foot monument with a wagon wheel at the top, once stood southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several decades ago, it was taken down and stored when U.S. highway 85 became I-25. It was subsequently reassembled on its present site which is located just off I-25 between the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe."
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