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Courtesy of Iron County DUP
INTERACTIVE CD-ROM
 

Explore the incredible story of faith, determination, and hard work that created the city of Nauvoo.  With the interactive CD-ROM, you will be able to follow timeline and events with inspiring stories and photographs of Nauvoo.  Visit areas surrounding this historic Nauvoo area; see the details of the Mormon's will to create a city and temple of God in Nauvoo before being driven west.

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Selecting the Carthage section of Nauvoo begins a video presentation of images and audio as related in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 135.

In the Map section of Nauvoo, you can cursor over the site names and see their location on the map. Click on the site name and a video and audio clip begins.

 

The People's section of the Nauvoo CD-ROM will give you information on key figures in Nauvoo as well as The Quorum of The Twelve during the Nauvoo period.
Selecting a Story title will begin one of the many interesting audio presentations form the history of the Nauvoo saints.
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The Timeline will give you a chronological perspective of events in Nauvoo through audio narratives.
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View details about he saints gathering to cross the Mississippi River for their exodus west. Parley's Street became known as The Trail of Hope. Each plaque along this trail is presented in an audio and visual clip.
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Joseph Smith was the Nauvoo prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Later Brigham Young was the prophet when the saints left Nauvoo. William Weeks was the first architect of the Nauvoo Temple and Truman O. Angel was the second architect of the Nauvoo Temple and later worked on the Salt Lake Temple. Hyrum Smith was the brother of the Joseph Smith and was a key player at Nauvoo and later killed at Carthage. Etienne Cabot, Mary Fielding Smith, Emma Hales Smith, Orin Porter Rockwell, Lucy Mack Smith where important personalities during the Nauvoo Temple period. Thomas Sharp was a key personality during the Nauvoo period and was instrumental in the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Parley P. Pratt, William Smith all helped in the building of Nauvoo Illinois and the Nauvoo Temple. Orson Pratt, John Page, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A. Smith where all members of the Church of Jesus Christ also known as mormons. Willard Richards, Lyman Wight, Amasa M. Lyman, , Margaret Judd Clawson, Louisa Barns Pratt, Chief Pied Riche, Hosea Stout, Zina Huntington Jacobs Young, Bathsheba Smith, Mary Field, Garner, Bathsheba W. Smith, George Q. Cannon, Gilbert Belnap, BH Roberts, Sarah Leavitt, Hosea Stout, Newel Knight, Martha Ann Smith, Benjamin F. Johnson, Jane Johnson, Priddy Meeks, Erastus Snow, Patty Session, Gideon Murdock, are all listed on the trail of hope markers. The Sarah Granger Kimbal home is one of the historic landmarks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints in the Nauvoo Illinois area. The Scovil Bakery, Lyon Drug, Patti Sessions are all on the tour of Historic Nauvoo Illinois. The Stoddard Tim Shop, Printing Office, Jonathan Browning Gun Shop are located on the same street in Historic Nauvoo. The temple has carvings of the sunstone, moonstone, starstone. President Gordon B. Hinckley will dedicate the temple at Nauvoo.