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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
The prominent Kaskaskia cemetery recalls the 1881 flood. The site was named one of the contributing properties to the new French Colonial Historic District in 1974, along with other area French-influenced sites such as Fort de Chartres , the Creole House , the Kolmer Site (a former Indian village), and the Pierre Menard House .
This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
In May 2007 a group of 60 Amish men, women and children moved from Wisconsin to Saline County, Illinois where they purchased almost 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of land to farm near Harco. [1] At the junction of Harco Road and Brown Road they erected a school house that was destroyed by a derecho in 2009. [2] In 2013 the Amish there had one church ...
For the Amish people, Rumspringa means something completely different than what you often see in popular media.
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Nauvoo (/ ˈ n ɔː v uː / NAW-voo; from the Hebrew: נָאווּ, Modern: Navu, Tiberian: Nâwû, 'they are beautiful') is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison, Iowa.