Mormon Battalion Historic Site

Mormon Battalion Historic Site is a place visitors can journey into the past. This San Diego, California location offers state of the art technology from the past providing information on the joys, hardships, and perils of Battalion members that moved west. On the tour guests are encouraged to ponder those who lived in the pioneer camps that came from Western Iowa. They can even learn what equipment was used to create Fort Leavenworth.

The tour is free and forty minutes long. The tour guide offers both English and Spanish language to help all visitors learn about these early times, as well as,to honor the early Spanish history that made up much of California. Exhibits include a US Model 1816 flintlock musket. It weighs nine pounds and two ounces. It fires a .64 caliber ball, which is a lead ball. The barrel is forty two inches.

Besides the muskets, the museum also has a canteen used by Private Jacob Earl, gold pouches, Levi Hancock's journal, scriptures, a canon, and ancestor kiosk. The kiosk has several facts about the 500 battalion members that moved from Iowa to California in the 1800s. There is also a US Military Wagon.