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Garden Grove is a city in Decatur County, Iowa, United States. The population was 211 at the 2010 census. ==History== On April 24, 1846,〔Leland H. Gentry, "The Mormon Way Stations: Garden Grove and Mt. Pisgah," ''BYU Studies'', 24:4 (Fall 1981), 448.〕 emigrants affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young established a way station halfway into their trek across Iowa. This semi-permanent settlement was named Garden Grove because the entire grove was covered with wild onions as far as the eye could see.〔Nelson Wheeler Whipple, "Diaries, 1863-1887," p. 20, MSS SC 38, Harold B. Lee Library Special Collections, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.〕 Within three weeks of their arrival, the pioneers enclosed and planted .〔Stanley Buchholz Kimball, ''Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 135.〕 They founded the village to assist those who did not have sufficient means to continue their journey, as well as to support and supply future companies of pioneers.〔Gentry, "The Mormon Way Stations," 449.〕 When Brigham Young and the main company left Garden Grove on May 12, 1846,〔William G. Hartley, "Mormons and Early Iowa History (1838 to 1858): Eight Distinct Connections," ''The Annals of Iowa'' 59:3 (Summer 2000), 236.〕 the poorest and least prepared were left behind. After the Saints arrived in Winter Quarters, Captain James Allen brought orders from President James Polk to enlist a battalion of Mormons for the War with Mexico.〔Richard E. Bennett, ''Mormons at the Missouri: Winter Quarters, 1846-1852'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), 51.〕 Brigham Young and other leaders rode back as far as Mt. Pisgah to encourage the men to enlist, and a letter was sent to the Saints in Garden Grove.〔B. H. Roberts, ''The Mormon Battalion: Its History and Achievements'' (Provo, Utah: Maasai, 2001), 17.〕 Only one man from the Garden Grove settlement, Edward Bunker, enlisted and served in the Mormon Battalion.〔Edward Bunker, ''Autobiography of Edward Bunker'' (Provo: Brigham Young University, 1938), 7.〕 In the fall of 1846, when the last of the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo, Illinois, the exiles camped on the west shore of the Mississippi River. Two rescue parties were sent from Winter Quarters and Council Bluffs,〔Bennett, ''Mormons at the Missouri'', 84.〕 and an additional group was requested from Garden Grove. Luman Shurtliff lead the third rescue party and brought the poorest of the exiles to the settlement at Garden Grove.〔Luman Andros Shurtliff, "Journal of Luman Andros Shurtliff," pp. 64-66, 289.3701S562j, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.〕 Through the winter of 1846/47, about 600 Latter-day Saints resided in Garden Grove.〔Bennett, ''Mormons at the Missouri'', 90.〕 By 1852, the Mormon settlers had moved on to Utah, selling the property and improvements to other American frontiersmen. Garden Grove is a site on the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. A marker just west of the city, overlooking a wooded ravine, marks the site of the former Mormon Cemetery. Garden Grove was a shipping point on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garden Grove, Iowa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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