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Plate commemorating the Latter-day Saints temple in Nauvoo, Illinois
1844–46
made by Joseph Twigg's Newhill Pottery, England
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founded the town of Nauvoo in 1839 and finished construction of their elaborate temple in 1846. Initially welcomed by the Illinois General Assembly, growing anti-Mormonism and the 1844 murder of leader Joseph Smith drove them to abandon the town and head west. |