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 ...