The Homestead - Nauvoo, Illinois
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BruceS
N 40° 32.423 W 091° 23.507
15T E 636191 N 4488979
Marker giving history of the first home in Nauvoo of Joseph Smith, Jr, the founder of the Latter Days Saints movement.
Waymark Code: WMF9FQ
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2012
Views: 4
From historical marker:
This two-story, two-room long block house was located on the original 135 arcres purchased from local farmer Hugh White and may date to 1803. Jospeph Smith moved here in teh spring of 1839 with his wife Emma; sones Joseph III, Frederick Granger Williams, and Alexander; and adopted daughter Julia. With the addition of a large room on the north side of the structure in 1840 this house became, for a time, the center of community life in Nauvoo. According to Joseph III, "Father's home in Nauvoo was generally overrun with visitors. There was scarely a Sunday in ordinary weather that the house and yard were not crowded--the yard with teams and the house with callers"
In 1858 a two-story addtion was added to west side of the hosue by Joeph Smith III and he lived here with his family until 1866. Joseph III served as justice of the peace during part of that time. While living here he also came president and prophet of the Reoganized Church, a position held from 1860 to 1914.
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