Nauvoo, Illinois
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Location in Illinois
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| Foundation : | 1630 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Hancock County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 33 ′ N , 91 ° 23 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,063 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 120.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 12.43 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 8.81 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 198 m | ||
| Postal code : | 62354 | ||
| Area code : | +1 217 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-51791 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 414307 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofnauvoo.org | ||
| Mayor : | John McCarty | ||
Nauvoo is a town in Hancock County in western US -amerikanischen State of Illinois of the east bank Mississippi River , straddling the border of Iowa forms. In 2000, Nauvoo had 1,063 residents.
Settlement history
The area has been inhabited by various Native American tribes for 12,000 years . In the 18th century, the Sauk and Fox tribes were forced to leave their residential areas in what is now New York State and relocate here, contesting the land of the Illinois Indians who previously lived here.
In the treaty with France of 1804, the USA took possession of the entire country up to the Mississippi and set up trading posts, including what is now Nauvoo . In the further course of history, the area was repeatedly disputed between Indians and white settlers. After 1832, all indigenous people were forcibly relocated from there to reservations west of the Mississippi (see Path of Tears ).
Along with many others, Germans also settled in what is now Nauvoo , and German-language inscriptions can still be read on some houses today. One of them, at the Joseph Cooledge Home , comes from a certain Georg Kaufmann and reads: This house is mine, and yet not mine. Whoever commits after Me will be like that. I've been here. Whoever will read that has also been here.
City of the Mormons
Earlier this year, in 1839 bought Mormons , because of the persecution of their religious community after the Missouri Executive Order 44 from Missouri fled, parts of the area and began to settle there. Her Prophet Joseph Smith , jailed in Missouri, later followed suit. The place was originally called Commerce before Smith named the settlement Nauvoo , which is phonetically close to a Hebrew word for beautiful place . The name comes from Isaiah 52: 7.
Significant portions of the most controversial Mormon doctrines, such as the doctrine of the imperfect of intelligence, the plurality of gods, the eternal progress (exaltation), polygamy , the baptism of the dead , and the other temple rituals , were obtained their final form only in Nauvoo.
But the persecution continued here too, Joseph Smith was murdered in the jail in the neighboring city of Carthage in 1844, and in 1845 the Mormons, under their new leader Brigham Young , decided to move further west and completely leave the United States, which then ended on the Mississippi . (see Mormon Trail and Salt Lake City ).
The city was the headquarters of the Church from 1840 to 1845. The second temple of the church was also built here. The Nauvoo Temple was badly damaged by an arsonist in 1848 after the church members left and later destroyed by a tornado and the stones were used to construct other buildings in Nauvoo. At the turn of the millennium, the temple was rebuilt and rededicated on June 27, 2002.
The place as Icaria
A group of French settlers around the early socialist Étienne Cabet acquired the settlement from the Mormons in order to establish an ideal communist settlement there. In the first seven years or so, the experiment appeared to be successful. At that time, the place now called Ikarien had a maximum of 500 inhabitants and had a kindergarten, an infirmary as well as a laundry, a pharmacy and other things. A Sunday university, which was devoted to cultural and scientific subjects, made possible a cultural life in the colony. After a few years it failed because of internal disputes and financial problems.
Nauvoo today
Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Fellowship of Christ still own some historic places and buildings in Nauvoo, not least the houses where Joseph Smith and Brigham Young lived. Today's residents are mostly Catholics, although the proportion of Mormons has increased again since the temple was rebuilt.
In recent times, important local products have been wine and cheese. For decades, one of the most important employers was the Nauvoo Blue Cheese Factory , which produced a nationally known blue cheese . In 2003 this factory was closed.
