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 ...

the Nauvoo Expositor. The ensuing outcry leads to criminal charges, and after starting to flee, Smith changes his mind and surrenders to state authorities. June 27: While in jail, Joseph Smith ...

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 ...

Mitt Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, was born in a Mormon colony in Nauvoo, Ill., in 1843. The Mormon church's founder, Joseph Smith, was killed by a mob a year later, and the ...

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 ...

the Nauvoo Expositor. The ensuing outcry leads to criminal charges, and after starting to flee, Smith changes his mind and surrenders to state authorities. June 27: While in jail, Joseph Smith ...