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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will seek National Historic Landmark status for Mountain Meadows, the southern Utah site that memorializes the 1857 massacre of 120 Arkansans.
Patty Norris, president of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants, says the disclosure came during a meeting Friday in Arkansas with representatives of the Church.
In December, the Mountain Meadows Association, the Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants and the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation asked the church to pursue landmark status for the site, 35 miles northwest of St. George, Utah.
Arkansas members of the Fancher-Baker wagon train were headed for California when they were attacked during a stopover at the meadow. After a week-long gun battle, the group was tricked in to a fake truce by a local Mormon leader and killed on Sept. 11, 1857.
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