Two unlikely monuments 4,000 miles apart honor the same 410 Mormon pioneers
“When I saw that Mormon Pond,” says one tourist, “I was like, ‘What are the Mormons doing all the way out here?’”
(Dylan Eubank | The Salt Lake Tribune and Josh Smith) The lighthouse sculpture at the memorial in Spanish Fork, left, and the Mormon Pond monument, right, in Iceland honor 410 Icelander Latter-day Saints who immigrated to Utah in the 19th century.