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During the Mexican War, a detachment of United States soldiers of the Mormon Battalion spent the winter of 1846-47 near this site. With their families and Mormon immigrants from Mississippi, they formed a settlement of 275 persons. They erected a church and rows of dwellings of cottonwood logs. Here were born the first white children in Colorado.
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Pueblo, Colorado · United States
