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Figure 62- Mormon town-planning.<br />

Winter Quarters, or Florence, Nebraska in <strong>the</strong> winter of 1846-1847. Thomas Bullock’s “Poor<br />

Camp Journal” of Thursday, 17 December 1846, notes: “I made a map of Winter Quarters.” It<br />

is not known if this item is <strong>the</strong> one made on this date, but it clearly dates from this period. This<br />

plat map of Winter Quarters (located north of Omaha, Nebraska today) reveals <strong>the</strong> basic infl u-<br />

ence of Joseph Smith’s 1833 Plat of <strong>the</strong> City of Zion, a model used by Mormons before and<br />

after <strong>the</strong>ir movement into <strong>the</strong> Great Basin. At no time did <strong>the</strong> population of Winter Quarters exceed<br />

4,000. This suggests that more than 7,000 o<strong>the</strong>r westward-moving members established<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves in <strong>the</strong> ninety o<strong>the</strong>r communities on <strong>the</strong> east side of <strong>the</strong> Missouri River that have so<br />

far been identifi ed, or in a variety of Mormon settlements <strong>the</strong>n spread across Iowa. The importance<br />

of Winter Quarters was established by <strong>the</strong> presence of Brigham Young and many of <strong>the</strong><br />

Apostles, who had temporary homes <strong>the</strong>re. Winter Quarters was abandoned in 1848.<br />

(Image Courtesy Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo)

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