2004—14 July: Nauvoo
While visiting in this area that holds so many memories of our family and other founding Latter-day Saints, we had to spend some time in Nauvoo, of course.

To complement discoveries we’d made on earlier visits (as early as 1957, and as recently as 2001), we made it a point to go to the Joseph Smith Historic Site that the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) manages. As owners of the Smith family properties, they have a lot to show us that we “Utah Mormons” might overlook, if we limited our touristic inquiries to the pieces of Nauvoo that our Church owns. 		0384DavidsChamberew
David’s Chamber
Joseph Smith’s Mansion House, the Nauvoo House, the Smith homestead, and a reconstruction of the Red Brick Store all reward repeated visits. It’s a good idea to go there with some well-prepared questions to ask the friendly and well-informed C of C missionaries who will show visitors around, on request. From their bookstore, I came home with the Memoirs of Joseph Smith III, which he dictated to his daughter in his old age. Also a biography of David Hyrum Smith, the Prophet Joseph’s last son, with whom Emma was pregnant when the Prophet died.
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The Stone Arch Bridge 		Enjoyed a wonderful collection of David’s paintings and other memorabilia at the C of C visitors’s center. Picnicked at David’s Chamber, a picturesque spot just off the main road into town, where David liked to paint and meditate.

Visited the Stone Arch Bridge, built in the early phases of the Mormon settlement, with particular interest, inasmuch as Grandpa Isaac Decker’s dwelling was on Lumber Street, in that neighborhood, on a spot now covered by the Mississippi.
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