As the sorrowing saints walked westward, George Washington Johnson was given six keys and a charge to watch over the Nauvoo Temple just weeks after its dedication in 1846. Five years later ...

Farah says Nauvoo's tourism jumped to ... founder Smith and forcing Mormons west in 1846, eventually to found Salt Lake City. Their abandoned temple was desecrated by vandals, then gutted by ...

word spread about possible attacks heading toward Nauvoo that would lead to the arrest of the Twelve Apostles and destruction of the temple. An exodus began Feb. 4, 1846, with small groups of ...

In September 1846, the last of more than 12,000 residents of Nauvoo, Ill., were forced to leave their homes -- and the temple for which they had sacrificed so much since construction had commenced in ...

The original temple was completed in 1846, but was destroyed by fire when the Latter-day Saints were forced to leave Illinois. The reconstruction of the Nauvoo temple should be finished by 2002.

There, they established a militia. There, they built their second temple. And there, they buried their beloved prophet. But few know that during those Nauvoo years, church leaders worked to ...

At the center of the dispute is the majestic Nauvoo Illinois Temple that the church constructed ... also were murdered by a mob in nearby Carthage in 1846 after being imprisoned on charges of ...

In the early 1840s, Nauvoo, Ill., was a thriving city of 10,000 people. Most were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon Church. Mormon President ...

NAUVOO, Ill ... of church founder Smith and forcing Mormons west in 1846, eventually to found Salt Lake City. Their abandoned temple was desecrated by vandals, then gutted by an arson fire ...

NAUVOO, Ill ... of church founder Smith and forcing Mormons west in 1846, eventually to found Salt Lake City. Their abandoned temple was desecrated by vandals, then gutted by an arson fire ...