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Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother, Hyrum Smith, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, United States, on June 27, 1844, while awaiting trial in the town jail. As mayor of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith had ordered the destruction of the facilities used to print the Nauvoo ...
A Sunstone from the original Nauvoo Temple in a case in front of LDS Church's Visitor Center in Nauvoo. The Nauvoo Temple was designed in the Greek Revival style by architect William Weeks, under the direction of Joseph Smith. Weeks's design made use of distinctively Latter Day Saint motifs, including sunstones, moonstones, and starstones.
Joseph Smith. The life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, when he was 34–38 years old, covers the period of Smith's life when he lived in Nauvoo, an eventful and highly controversial period of the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1844, after Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, he was shot and killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse .
In 1839, Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS movement, established Nauvoo as a place of refuge for members of the LDS church who were driven out of Missouri. At the visitors center, you can learn the story of the LDS movement in Nauvoo during the early 1840s. And you'll learn about the differences between the church's two denominations.
Nauvoo and the Joseph Smith Historical Site is a must do, bucket list kind of visit whether or not you are Mormon. What happened in Nauvoo is nothing less than miraculous, as well as a monument to religious persecution, Bill of Rights denials to citizens and an example of hard working industrious Americans in the 1840s.
Like Williamsburgh, VA and Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires, Joseph Smith Historic Site takes the visitor back in time to the 1840s when a group of Latter Day Saints arrived to build a town in Nauvoo,IL. Life was hard with backbreaking labor to drain a swamp, build log cabins and a Mormon temple.
The Joseph Smith Mansion House in Nauvoo, Illinois is a large residence first occupied by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith used the house as a personal home, a public boarding house, a hotel, and as a site for the performance of temple ordinances . In January 1841, Smith declared in a revelation that Latter Day ...
Hidden away from the LDS sites and downtown Nauvoo you will find the Joseph Smith Historic site down on the flat, by the river. Two homes that Joseph Smith lived in, his grave site, his general store and an interpretive center with a bookstore are all part of the offerings. Well educated guides can give you a tour and answer your questions.