Aug. 17, 2011 - Nauvoo Tour - Buggy Ride
We walked to the little cabin where they accepted our tickets and helped us board the buggy.
Our host was an elder missionary who narrated the free tour.
The first thing we did was ford a small stream where we saw some of the limestone of the type used to build the Nauvoo temple.
They called it a "buggy" ride but this was a rather large buggy.
We passed the first farm with a field of soy beans.
A pond had turtles sunning themselves.
The missionary narrator had us turn to look at the temple on the hill in the distance. This would have been similar to the view the departing saints had of their temple as they were forced to leave their homes for the west in the winter of of 1846.
The original temple was completed under duress after Joseph Smith was martyred. After the saints left Nauvoo, their detractors set fire to the temple.
This is a well dedicated to a Nauvoo resident named King Follet. "King" was his first name, not a title. He was a stone mason who was crushed while working on the original Nauvoo Temple when a rope broke allowing rock to fall on him. Joseph Smith preached his funeral.
We heard stories of the original farms and homes located on the neighboring farmland.
There was a turn-around called "Inspiration Point" where we were told Joseph Smith was fond to visit. He was a very popular person for the thousands of Nauvoo residents. He found solace and an opportunity to meditate on this bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.
Our missionary narrator was a famer. He also told us of the importance of the river which, he said, still transports a majority of U.S. agricultural exports.
He told us how there's a channel through the river where the old steamers once travelled. Modern barge traffic still keeps to this channel where the water is deep. Along the edge of the river the water is only about 18 inches deep, shallow enough for these flowers our guide called "American Lotus." I took this photo on the way to Nauvoo.
A closer look at these white flowers is on another of my web pages.
Our host was an elder missionary who narrated the free tour.
The first thing we did was ford a small stream where we saw some of the limestone of the type used to build the Nauvoo temple.
They called it a "buggy" ride but this was a rather large buggy.
We passed the first farm with a field of soy beans.
A pond had turtles sunning themselves.
The missionary narrator had us turn to look at the temple on the hill in the distance. This would have been similar to the view the departing saints had of their temple as they were forced to leave their homes for the west in the winter of of 1846.
The original temple was completed under duress after Joseph Smith was martyred. After the saints left Nauvoo, their detractors set fire to the temple.
This is a well dedicated to a Nauvoo resident named King Follet. "King" was his first name, not a title. He was a stone mason who was crushed while working on the original Nauvoo Temple when a rope broke allowing rock to fall on him. Joseph Smith preached his funeral.
We heard stories of the original farms and homes located on the neighboring farmland.
There was a turn-around called "Inspiration Point" where we were told Joseph Smith was fond to visit. He was a very popular person for the thousands of Nauvoo residents. He found solace and an opportunity to meditate on this bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.
Our missionary narrator was a famer. He also told us of the importance of the river which, he said, still transports a majority of U.S. agricultural exports.
He told us how there's a channel through the river where the old steamers once travelled. Modern barge traffic still keeps to this channel where the water is deep. Along the edge of the river the water is only about 18 inches deep, shallow enough for these flowers our guide called "American Lotus." I took this photo on the way to Nauvoo.
A closer look at these white flowers is on another of my web pages.