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Mount Pisgah Union County, Iowa, United States of America Mount Pisgah Union County, Iowa, United States of America Mount Pisgah was a temporary way station in southern Iowa for members of the LDS Church traveling west to Winter Quarters from Nauvoo. Mount Pisgah was established in southern Iowa as a temporary way station for Mormon emigrants who were crossing the Plains from 1846-1852. The picturesque setting was a welcome to many of the expelled Saints. Ezra T. Benson de- scribed Mount Pisgah as “the first place that I felt willing in my heart to stay since I left Nauvoo.”1 Shortly after arriving, Indian Chief Pied Riche welcomed the Saints to the area and described how their people had also been driven from their home in Michigan and felt that they “must help The Mount Pisgah Cemetery Entrance one another, and the Great Spirit will help us both. Photo courtesy of Alexander L. Baugh Because one suffers and does not deserve it is no 2 Taken from an informational marker near Mount Pisgah. reason he shall suffer always. We may live to see it right yet. If we do not our children will.” 3 Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus However, despite the scenic beauty of the Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Pub- area, the Saints who lived at Mount Pisgah en- dured many hardships. Within the first six months lishing Co., 1941), 546. of settling the area, at least 150 people died.2 Among those who died there was Joseph Knight, Sr. who had joined the Church early in Colesville, Various Accounts of Mount New York. Also, the call to fulfill positions in the Pisgah Mormon Battalion came to Mount Pisgah and ap- proximately 65 of the able-bodied men left in the service of the military. Orson Pratt’s Account of Mount Pisgah1 In 1852 the Mount Pisgah stakes were in- “The twelve, with some others went out sev- structed to dismantle their settlement and emi- eral miles into the regions round about to view the grate to the Salt Lake Valley. In 1888, The Church country. We found the same very broken and hilly of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the although well adapted to farming. We concluded pioneer cemetery and the surrounding one acre. to form another settlement here, for the benefit of Also, a monument was erected listing the names of the poor, and such as were unable, for the want of many people who lost their lives at Mount Pisgah. teams, to proceed further. Accordingly, the camp commenced building houses, ploughing, planting, SOURCES and fencing in farms and immense quantity of la- bour was performed in a very few days. And the 1 Leland H. Gentry, “The Mormon Way Stations: Garden place in a short time began to assume the appear- Grove and Mount Pisgah,” BYU Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, ance of an old settlement. The ground being more 1991, 454. hilly and elevated than the prairies over which we 2 Mount Pisgah, Union County, Iowa, United States of America had passed we concluded to call the place Mount Visitor Information Pisgah.” 2 Wilford Woodruff’s Account of Mount Pisgah Address: “I stopped my carriage on the top of a hill 1704 Mount Pisgah Road in the midst of a rolling prairie, where I had an Thayer, IA 50254 extended view of all about me. I beheld the Saints (641) 763-2504 coming in all directions from hills and dales, groves and prairies, with their wagons, flocks and Hours of Operation: herds, by the thousands. It looked like the move- The Mount Pisgah area is privately owned, ment of a nation.” but you can call and the owner is happy to give tours of the area. Parley P. Pratt’s Account of Mount Pisgah3 “Riding about three or four miles through beautiful prairies, I came suddenly to some round Further Reading Resources and sloping hills, grassy and crowned with beauti- ful groves of timber; while alternate open groves and forests seemed blended in all the beauty and harmony of an English park. While beneath and Susan Easton Black and William G. Hartley eds., beyond, on the west, rolled a main branch of The Iowa Mormon Trail: Legacy of Faith and Courage Grand River, with its rich bottoms of alternate (Orem, UT: Helix Publishing, 1997). forest and prairie. As I approached this lovely Howard R. Driggs, “Following the Old ‘Mormon’ scenery several deer and wolves, being startled at Trail: Pictures of Mount Pisgah,” Instructor, Feb- the sight of me, abandoned the place and bound- ruary 1922, Vol. 57, 61-64. ed away till lost from my sight amid the groves. Richard L. Evans, “Mount Pisgah Mormon Cem- Being pleased and excited at the varied beauty etery,” Improvement Era, January 1937, Vol. 40, before me, I cried out, ‘this is Mount Pisgah.’ I 20-22. returned to my camp, with the report of having Leland H. Gentry, “The Mormon Way Stations: found the long sought river, and we soon moved Garden Grove and Mount Pisgah,” BYU Studies, on and encamped under the shade of these beau- Fall 1981, Vol. 21, 445-61. tiful groves.” Andrew Jensen, “Mount Pisgah,” Utah Genealogi- cal and Historical Magazine, October 1916, Vol. 7, SOURCES 157-75. Hannah Settle Lapish, “The ‘Mormon’ Burial 1 Leland H. Gentry, “The Mormon Way Stations: Garden Grove and Mount Pisgah,” BYU Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, Ground at Mount Pisgah, Iowa,” Improvement 1991, 454. Era, May 1914, Vol. 17, 662-66. Herman C. Smith, “Settlement at Mount Pisgah, 2 Preston Nibley, The Presidents of the Church, 13th ed., rev. Iowa,” Journal of History, April 1909, Vol. 2, 185- and enl. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1974), 118. 90. 3 Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, edited by his son, Parley P. Pratt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1985), 307 - 308..
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