{"id":16195,"date":"2026-02-12T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16195"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:12:06","slug":"the-mormon-trail-in-van-buren-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-mormon-trail-in-van-buren-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mormon Trail in Van Buren County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My visit to Van Buren County on Jan. 18 was a two-fer for stories. The Historic Hills Scenic Byway coordinator made the Iowaville presentation the cornerstone of a two-day, multiple-location tour of sites along the byway. <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/avenue-of-the-latter-day-saints\">This second presentation, in Bentonsport<\/a>, was about the Mormon Trail and the marks it left in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/avenue-of-the-latter-day-saints\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16196\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/substack_mormontrail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/substack_mormontrail.jpg 600w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/substack_mormontrail-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/substack_mormontrail-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My visit to Van Buren County on Jan. 18 was a two-fer for stories. The Historic Hills Scenic Byway coordinator made the Iowaville presentation the cornerstone of a two-day, multiple-location tour of sites along the byway. This second presentation, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-mormon-trail-in-van-buren-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}