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| Sesquicentennial Commemoration and Handcart Exhibit, Iowa City, Iowa |
The Mormon Historic Site Foundation and the Johnson County Historical Society collaborated to create a diorama exhibit telling the story of the handcarts.The exhibit was unveiled on September 2, 2001 as part of the sesquicentennial of the Mormon handcart experiment launched on June 9, 1856. The Foundation was also a sponsor of the Sesquicentennial Commemoration that took place June 9-11, 2006. More information about the commemoration can be found at the Historical Pioneer Sesquicentennial website. The handcart exhibit depicts a family of Latter-day Saints crossing the plains and includes first-person accounts in telling the handcart story of those who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley. It was unveiled on September 2, 2006. If you believe you had an ancestor that came through Iowa City, click on one of the following vessels that they came to America on: John J. Boyd | Caravan | Enoch Train | S. Curling | Thornton | Horizon | Well Fleet |
