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Nauvoo

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nauvoo , historic city (1990 pop. 1,108), Hancock co., W Ill., on heights overlooking the Mississippi River; inc. 1841. Situated in an agricultural area where fruit, corn, and soybeans are grown, the city produces wine and cheese, but tourism is the major industry. Settled in the early 1830s as Commerce, the city became (1839) a Mormon center and was renamed. Nauvoo grew rapidly under Joseph Smith and the Mormons, to some 20,000 inhabitants in the early 1840s; it was briefly Illinois' largest city. After Smith and his brother were killed (1844) by a mob in nearby Carthage, his followers left... Read more
George Quayle Cannon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... apostle, b. Liverpool, England. He and his parents were converted to Mormonism in 1840; from the Isle of Man they emigrated to Nauvoo, Ill., in 1842, moving to Utah in 1847. In 1850, Cannon founded a Mormon mission in Hawaii. He became an apostle in 1859 and ... Read more
Mormons in American Theatre and Drama
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ... beginnings. Even during their precarious sojourn in Illinois, their leader, Joseph Smith, promoted a “Fun House” at the Nauvoo settlement. Mormon missionaries frequently accepted work as actors, ignoring the disdain in which performers were held by many ... Read more

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Illinois river cities Mormons revisit past in Nauvoo
Chicago Sun-Times; 8/1/1999; SUSAN HEGGER; 745 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. Each year, about a quarter-million people, the vast majority Mormons, visit Nauvoo - Hebrew for "beautiful place." For them, Nauvoo resonates with immense historical and religious significance and is their second-most visited ... Read more
LDS temple fuels jump in Nauvoo's tourism
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 8/20/2006; Jan Dennis Associated Press; 787 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. -- Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000 ... Christ of Latter-day Saints opened the towering, five-story Nauvoo LDS Temple that draws both LDS and non-LDS from around ... feet high, has fueled a more than tenfold tourism jump in Nauvoo, officials say. Other attractions, including the ... Read more
Nauvoo: Echoes of tragedy at Il linois' Mormon mecca
Chicago Sun-Times; 8/25/1991; Gloria L. Charnes; 787 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. In the mid-19th century, Nauvoo served as headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-D ... it legal to shoot a Mormon in that state. Within five years, Nauvoo burgeoned into a city of 12,000, with a prosperous business district ... Read more
Nauvoo -- Tiny town is a tourist magnet
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 12/3/2006; Jan Dennis Associated Press; 787 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. -- Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000 ... spire 165 feet high, has fueled a fivefold tourism jump in Nauvoo, said Kim Farah, a church spokeswoman in Utah. Other attractions ... plans for the temple fanned interest in 1999. Farah says Nauvoo's tourism jumped to about 1 million people a ... Read more
Profile: Nauvoo, Illinois, and its Mormon history
Morning Edition (NPR); 12/2/2003; BOB EDWARDS; 787 words ; ... EDWARDS Morning Edition (NPR) 12-02-2003 Profile: Nauvoo, Illinois, and its Mormon history Host: BOB EDWARDS ... EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. The economies of small towns ... opportunity in the Mississippi River town of Nauvoo, Illinois, which is now attracting a ... Read more
Nauvoo House still in danger of flooding
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/20/2008; Sarah Jane Weaver Church News staff writer; 320 words ; In Nauvoo, Ill., four pumps continued Thursday to ... away from the property of the historic Nauvoo House, threatened by massive flooding that ... week. LDS missionaries and BYU students in Nauvoo worked with members of the Community of ... Read more
Fragments of Nauvoo history reclaimed after years of neglect
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 11/27/2004; Carrie A. Moore Deseret Morning News; 787 words ; A treasure trove of artifacts left in Nauvoo, Ill., by early members of The Church ... repackaged the items this past summer in Nauvoo. Among them are not only pieces of the ... the 1960s at the site of the original Nauvoo Temple and other historic buildings, the ... Read more
LDS help sandbag in Nauvoo
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/18/2008; Sarah Jane Weaver Church News staff writer; 435 words ; ... to fill sandbags to help protect historic Nauvoo, Ill., and surrounding areas went out last ... and young sister missionaries assigned to Nauvoo. Employees and missionaries working for NRI or Nauvoo Restoration Inc. -- which handles LDS historic ... Read more
In tiny Nauvoo, no big push for Romney
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 12/6/2007; Christopher Wills Associated Press writer; 787 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. -- Mitt Romney's campaign for president hasn't exactly ... how his faith would or wouldn't influence his presidency. Nauvoo -- it's pronounced nah-VOO -- sits on the Mississippi River ... whom are Mormon. But tens of thousands of Mormons visit Nauvoo each year to see the temple and the spot a few ... Read more
Romney's campaign isn't catching fire in Nauvoo
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 12/9/2007; Christopher Wills Associated Press; 787 words ; NAUVOO, Ill. -- Mitt Romney's campaign for president hasn't exactly ... liberty as "a gift of God, not an indulgence of government." Nauvoo -- it's pronounced nah-VOO -- sits on the Mississippi River ... of whom are LDS. But tens of thousands of Mormons visit Nauvoo each year to see the temple and the spot a ... Read more

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