Location
In Old Portsmouth in Broad Street on the water side of the road by one of the Sally Ports.
THE COMMITMENT OF THE EUROPEANS
WHO COURAGEOUSLY LEFT THEIR NATIVE LANDS
TO CREATE A NEW HOME IN AMERICA
PRESENTED TO
THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
ON 27TH AUGUST 2001
BY MEMBERS OF
THE PIONEER HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Further Information
The Pioneer Heritage Foundation were originally known as the Sea Trek Foundation, which was formed by a Salt Lake venture capitalist William Sadleir to charter three tall ships to take part in a re-creation of the Atlantic Ocean crossings by 19th century converts who emigrated to America. Unfortunately the venture ran up huge debts which it was unable to pay and was eventually saved by an affiliate of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints who then sued the Sea Trek Foundation for the money.
Fund raising to pay off the debt continues and "will come in $500 increments", Sadleir said, from people who want to have their family name and the name of an ancestor included on a bronze plaque to be displayed at one of several statuary monuments financed by Sea Trek. Some of those statues have been placed in port cities that Sea Trek stopped in, while others are completed but have yet to be placed in their destined locations.
No names have yet been inscribed on the Portsmouth Memorial.
