This is a view from the pioneer cemetary tooking towards the Temple. The grounds are adorned with wonderfully large hardwood and evergreen trees.

The Winter Quarters settlement, consisting of some 500 log cabins and sod huts, was on fairly level, open ground down the hill to the East from this cemetary location and extending out to the west bank of the Missouri River. This was Potowatami Indian land granted by the federal government and the Indian tribes as a temporary resting place for the Saints before they continued their western migration.