Tag: mormon history site
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Martin’s Cove
In 1856, close to 1,500 people all part of the Martin and Willie handcart companies and the Hodgetts, Hunt, and Smoot wagon companies became stranded on the high plains of present-day Wyoming in the dead of winter. Most of these groups were traveling from Iowa to present-day Utah to join with many others of their…
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Browning Home & Gun Shop – Nauvoo, IL
Browning’s Home and Gun shop was authentically restored in the 1960’s in Nauvoo. It was one of the first buildings in Nauvoo to be restored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this area. Today if you visit for a tour you will be taught a bit of history
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Nauvoo
People are still attracted to this wide bend on the Mississippi river for numerous reasons as outlined below. Nauvoo can be a place of great refuge and inspiration or a crowded tourist trap. It is what you make of it. This article of tips and insight, gleamed over decades of travel, to the City of…
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Nauvoo Temple
Nauvoo Temple History The Nauvoo Temple was the second temple built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its cornerstones, laid on April 6, 1841, would await the temple’s completion for many years. In fact, from accounts it would seem that the first construction of this temple was never totally completed. Although In…