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With our visit to Nauvoo, IL Marina completed the Mormon Trail. A small community named Commerce when purchased by the Mormons after they were run out of Missouri, Nauvoo, located on a slight bend of the Mississippi, soon became one of the most populous communities in the state.
After Joseph Smith was murdered while in custody, the westward emigration under Brigham Young began. They have since returned and restored much of the community to its prior condition and it is a pretty place to visit complete with docents.

They took their own beehives, packing the hole with mud while traveling.