[Pioneer Day] The first company of Mormon pioneers, led by Brigham Young, officially entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on 24 July 1847. For Latter-day Saints, this event has come to signal the founding of a new homeland for the purpose of establishing their earthly Zion.
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Pioneer Day, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/p/PIONEERDAY.html]
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