On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

She was overwhelmed as 10,000 people paraded through her home, the Nauvoo Mansion House, to see Joseph as he laid in state there with his brother Hyrum Smith, who was murdered with him by a mob ...

The original David Rogers portraits of Joseph and Emma Smith. • The cornerstone of the Nauvoo House, used to store the original Book of Mormon manuscript. • The original door of Missouri’s ...

In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was visited by an angel named ... orchestrated the building of temples; served as mayor of Nauvoo, one of the largest cities in Illinois, and as general of its ...

Soon after publishing The Book of Mormon in 1830, Joseph Smith left his home in Palmyra, New York with several dozen followers. Over the next fifteen years, Smith's Latter-day Saints would ...

From the swampy banks of the Mississippi the majestic City of Joseph rose and the Saints once ... went abroad and converts flocked to Nauvoo by the thousands the enemies of the church grew ...