One is a property called the Smith Family Homestead. That was an existing building when the Latter-day Saints moved to Nauvoo, basically as religious refugees. Joseph and Emma moved into this ...

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 ...

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

It was in Nauvoo that events would conspire to urge the Mormons westward. In June 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by an angry Nauvoo mob. Smith had earlier speculated that ...