In this Friday, Dec. 28, 2018 photo, a bell that once hung at a Lees Ferry, Ariz., school, the small settlement where pioneers crossed the Colorado River on ferry barges, is shown on display at a local office in Phoenix. The bell is to be the focal point of a proposed memorial honoring the tens of thousands of Arizonans who trace their roots in the state back to a mass migration of Mormon settlers, who made the journey from Utah over a century ago, crossing the river at Lees Ferry, in their months-long journey, before a bridge was built at the crossing in 1929. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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