Sites of interest along concert tour's route
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These are some of the Church historical sites members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square paid brief visits to during their 2009 concert tour June 18-June 30.
Nauvoo: The city founded on the Mississippi River in Illinois by the Latter-day Saints was the headquarters of the Church from 1839 to 1846, after the Saints were driven from Missouri. The Prophet Joseph Smith having been murdered by a mob in nearby Carthage in 1844, the Saints were forced by persecutors to leave Nauvoo, and they then made their way west to the Salt Lake Valley.
Winter Quarters: Located on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, it was a resting place where the Latter-day Saints, under the leadership of Brigham Young, stayed during the winter months of 1846-47, the vanguard group resuming its trek in the spring to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving July 24, 1847.
Kanesville: Located on the Iowa side of the Missouri River, across from Winter Quarters, it was the main temporary settlement and way station for Latter-day Saints heading west to the Salt Lake Valley. Established in late 1847, it was abandoned by 1852, when President Brigham Young instructed the remaining Church members residing there to come west.
Liberty: A city in Missouri, where the Prophet Joseph Smith and several companions were imprisoned in a dark, dungeonlike jail for several months in 1838-39, awaiting trial on charges stemming from the strife in Missouri (see Doctrine and Covenants 121-123). While being taken to another venue, the Prophet was allowed to escape, and he joined his people, already exiled to Illinois.
Independence: The Missouri city where Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints attempted to establish "the center place of Zion" from 1831 to 1833. Conflicts with some of the "old settlers" necessitated their removal and establishment of settlements elsewhere in Missouri, such as Far West and Adam-ondi-Ahman, before they were ultimately driven out of the state by order of the Missouri governor in 1838.
Council Bluffs: The name given to Kanesville, Iowa, after the departure of the Mormons in 1852.
