A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — It was almost impossible for curious visitors getting their first peek inside the reconstructed Mormon Nauvoo Temple to resist the building’s tactile enticements. Hushed crowds felt the ...

NAUVOO, Ill. — Sunday isn’t the best day to visit Nauvoo, unless you like being the only people milling about this Mississippi River city, known primarily as the place where Latter-day Saints prophet ...

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, after mobs ...

NAUVOO, Ill. – Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged ...

A statue of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum stands outside the Carthage Jail where the two were killed in 1844. The historic jail is still open for tours. Journal-Pilot file photo Editor’s note: ...

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 leading attraction in this riverfront town of 1,200 is a meticulously landscaped, historically significant, theologically momentous hole in the ground. The rectangular depression, marked with a ...

Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged one of Illinois ...

On Feb. 4, 1846, Saints left from New York, Nauvoo for the Rocky Mountains. A group from Mississippi soon joined them.