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The history of Nauvoo, Illinois, starts with the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes who frequented the area, on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County, some 53 miles (85 km) north of today's Quincy. They called the area "Quashquema", in honor of the Native American chief who headed a Sauk and Fox settlement numbering nearly 500 lodges ...
A History of Illinois: From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. University of Illinois Press. Hallwas, John F.; Launius, Roger D. (1995). Cultures in Conflict, A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. Leonard, Glen M. (2002). Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake ...
The Nauvoo Illinois Temple is the 113th dedicated temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The intent to build the temple was announced on April 4, 1999, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley during general conference. [2] It is the third temple built in Illinois (after the original Nauvoo and Chicago Illinois ...
In 1845 the Nauvoo Legion lost its official sanction as an arm of the Illinois militia, following a controversy in which the Nauvoo Expositor newspaper was destroyed by the Legion on Joseph Smith's orders. The unit was dissolved and as former soldiers went west, they joined the Mormon battalion. [citation needed]
The Nauvoo Temple was the second temple constructed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [2] [3] The church's first temple was completed in Kirtland, Ohio, United States, in 1836.
Nauvoo Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District containing the city of Nauvoo, Illinois.The historic district is nearly coterminous with the City of Nauvoo as it was incorporated in 1840, but it also includes the Pioneer Saints Cemetery (), the oldest Mormon cemetery in the area, which is outside the town
Nauvoo Mormons feared reprisals from the non-Mormons, and non-Mormons were apprehensive about the Nauvoo Legion, especially after Smith declared martial law on June 18. Illinois governor Thomas Ford, desperately trying to prevent civil war, then mobilized the state militia. [93]
Times and Seasons was a 19th-century Latter Day Saint newspaper published at Nauvoo, Illinois.It was printed monthly or twice-monthly from November 1839 to February 1846. The motto of the paper was "Truth will prevail," which was printed underneath the title headi