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Jun 10, 2011 - Historic Nauvoo, Illinois

We left Hannibal, Missouri for a short drive to visit the National Historic District of Nauvoo, Illinois. In the late 1800s, the Mormons established a community along the Mississippi River and called it Nauvoo which is Hebrew for beautiful. We are not Mormons, so, you might ask, why would we want to make a visit to Nauvoo? Well, the Mormons were an integral part of the western migration in the mid 1800’s. The Mormons were forced out of Nauvoo and eventually migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah. Nauvoo is intertwined with the expansion of the...

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