It is entirely possible that other students of Hebrew could have originated the name Nauvoo and used it in other areas. I have, however, found no evidence to support this contention. There are those who consider that the name is Indian an erroneous but not bad guess , a varient or corruption of real Indian names such as Nowe, Noewe, Nuanha, Niowe, etc.
The most likely explanation, however, for the diffusion of this peculiar place name is through the travels of Mormon missionaries, including Joseph Smith and the Twelve Apostles. By , missionaries were fanning out through the land. Between after Nauvoo, Illinois, was named and , hundreds of elders had been assigned to the two great mission fields of that day, the Southern States and Eastern States missions.
The itinerant elders themselves probably did not give any community the name Nauvoo, and most of their converts left as quickly as possible for church headquarters in Illinois. There was in , however, a Nauvoo Branch in Wythe County, Virginia, but it was apparently of short duration and never developed into a community. The names, therefore, must have been given to certain communities later because Mormons had lived and worked in those areas, or because the name interested the local inhabitants, or because they too thought their place was beautiful and wanted a name that said so.
Canfield, lived in the area. There is good evidence that the christening was instigated by Mrs. Lydia Jane Peirson —62 , a poet and early settler of the area. Such a name would surely have struck the fancy of a poet. A post office was established in this Nauvoo in August , and the same D. Canfield was the first postmaster. So much for folklore. Rigdon may very well have done so. After he left Nauvoo in he returned to the Pittsburgh area where he had from —24 been a Baptist minister and lived there for nearly 30 years, until his death in This Nauvoo exists today and has a population of about It is located on Zimmerman Creek, near highway , 11 miles southwest of Blossburg.
Next in point of time seems to be Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, which was established around and given its name by a Mr. Carroll, who may have thought the name Indian. A post office was established there in Today the community has a population of and is located on the Southern Railroad line, on highway 5 about 40 miles northwest of Birmingham.
Nauvoo, Dyers County, Tennessee, was apparently named by a Mr. Belus Whit in the s. Whit was a schoolteacher in the area who, though not a Mormon, was alleged to have been sympathetic with the Church.
When a post office was established there in , he gave it the name Nauvoo. Historic Nauvoo is a cultural landscape that interprets the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Nauvoo, Illinois, from to Under the prophetic leadership of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Latter-day Saints worked together during these years to build a faith-based community and a temple overlooking the Mississippi River.
COVID 19 visitor information updates. The Nauvoo Temple was a focal point in the historic landscape of Nauvoo and in the lives of the Latter-day Saints. In the spring of some of Joseph Smith's most trusted followers broke from him, and determined to expose his secret practice of polygamy and break up the political influence of Nauvoo on state politics. Three days later on Monday, June 10th, the Nauvoo City Council called an emergency meeting and declared that the newspaper was a public nuisance, ordered all copies gathered up and burned, and the press destroyed.
Within days the county was on the verge of civil war, with armed bands everywhere. Joseph Smith, as mayor of Nauvoo, declared martial law within the city, preventing armed men from going out or coming in to town. When news of the situation reached Governor Thomas Ford, he immediately ordered out the state militia and went to Carthage to see the situation for himself. After reaching Carthage, Ford called for Smith and the Nauvoo City Council to surrender themselves to stand trial for the destruction of the press.
Under a promise of protection, Joseph Smith and a few of the council members surrendered themselves on 24 June. Three days later, with the governor gone to Nauvoo, a group of Warsaw militia stormed the county jail and there killed Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and wounded a third man, with a fourth man in the room escaping injury.
At the death of Joseph Smith the county was gripped in terror in fear of Mormon retaliation. Instead of retaliating, the City of Nauvoo was silent. With the Mormons not returning action, and the governor having gone back to Springfield, the Anti-Mormon Party organized a series of raids against outlying Mormon settlements.
By the summer of the hostilities had progressed to shooting on both sides, and armed groups were again roaming Hancock County. With his immediate attention focused on another outbreak of violence in the southern part of the state, Governor Ford called out the State Militia to again quell the hostilities.
This time the Mormons, now under the leadership of Brigham Young, agreed to leave the state and abandon Nauvoo the coming spring. With their temple nearly completed, the Mormons began to put it to use in the winter of Fearing his people would be trapped, Young ordered many of the community's leaders to immediately evacuate the city, with the majority of the Saints to follow when the weather was better.
Throughout the spring and summer of , there was a continual procession of wagons crossing the Mississippi River on anything that could get them across.
By September the town that had once been home to more than 20, people had been reduced to less than 2,
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