Women were dressed in bonnets, long dresses and aprons, and the men wore straw hats, suspenders and flannel cotton shirts. Numerous wooden handcarts were filled to the brim with family belongings crowded together in a neat little circle.

The scene looked like something from the 1800s during American pioneers' migration west. But this was no cross-country voyage.

The journey before these pioneers was a 17-mile-trek, symbolizing the one their fellow Mormons and ancestors made nearly 170 years ago.

"It is certainly atypical," said Amelia Banks, of Brookline, N.H. "But it is a really good way to see what they went through and put us in their shoes."

Banks and around 130 other teenagers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are making the trip through the woods from Lake Massabesic over three days to Riverside Park in Raymond, New Hampshire, to re-enact the hardships suffered by Mormons during the middle of the 19th century.

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