Mormon Battalion Marker - Benson, AZ - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

A three-sided concrete monument, with a gray limestone rock on top and inset plaque. Three metal spikes are placed around the top of the monument, with tips up. Monument has suffered some minor chips of the white paint on one front edge.

A small brass colored plaquette has been placed at the upper left corner of the black inscribed plaque. It reads with the words forming a circle:

Faith in every footstep
1847-1997
There has a handcart being pulled by a man and womam and the word Pioneers in the center of the plaquette.

There is pull-off with plenty of parking in front of the marker.

Inscription on the plaque reads:

Mormon
LDS Church
Battalion
Dec 14 1848
Last camp on
San Pedro
Turned west
toward Tucson
Erected 1960
By Post 34
MF

TITLE: Mormon Battalion Marker ARTIST(S): Unknown, sculptor DATE: 1960 MEDIUM: Concrete, gray limestone and metal CONTROL NUMBER: IAS AZ000552 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Near the northeast corner of 4th Street and Ocotilla, about 500 feet east on 4th St DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: Inventory listing states: Three metal spikes are placed around plaque, with tips up. The three metal spikes are place at the top of the monument, not the plaque, as can be clearly seen in the photos.

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