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Website. www .beautifulnauvoo .com. Nauvoo ( / ˈnɔːvuː / 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. The population of Nauvoo was 950 at the 2020 census.
1. Historic Nauvoo. 331. Historic Sites • Educational sites. Step back in time with educational tours and demonstrations in a historic setting, featuring restored 1840s homes and shops, with a focus on early American and religious history. 2. Nauvoo Temple. 96. Religious Sites • Churches & Cathedrals.
Nauvoo, which was incorporated as a city in 1840, was designated as a National Historic Landmark District in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In the 1960s, Mormon preservationists began to restore the the city and develop it as a tourist attraction related to the history of Mormonism.
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.
See all. Hotel Nauvoo Historic Inn & Restaurant. 111. Nauvoo Temple House. 137. Nauvoo Family Inn & Suites. 94. from $140/night.
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 ( 40.5369°N 91.3507°W ), the oldest Mormon cemetery in the area, which is outside the ...
A few years ago, my wife and I visited the Joseph Smith Historic Site. Located at 865 Water Street, the visitors center is housed in a modern building in Nauvoo's historic flats just off Illinois Highway 96. It contains original paintings of Nauvoo by David Hyrum Smith, artifacts and information about the city and its people.
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. When the main body of the church was forced out of Nauvoo, Illinois, in the winter of 1846, the church attempted to sell the building, finally ...