"All that remains for us today as a
physical remembrance of the arduous labors and difficulties experienced by Moses and Eliza
is a very large stone fireplace with a tall chimney reaching to the sky as it stands
starkly alone near cottonwood trees said to have been planted by the Merrills. The
land slopes upward toward it from the Platte River which can be seen a short distance to
the south. All else has disappeared without leaving a trace. . . "