Located across the steet from the Winter Quarters Cemetery and the Winter Quarters Temple, is the Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters. This center should be considered a history museum telling the story of the Mormon migration, from Nauvoo to Salt Lake, and then from Europe to Salt Lake.
The presentation begins and ends with a statue of Jesus, for it is in Him that people have faith. It was to follow Him that people left their homes to gather with the Saints (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)
The Saints were torn because they dersired to finish the temple, and receive their co venants with the Lore, while they were being pressured to move. 5600 received their endowment while in Nauvoo, with the busiest time being just before they exodus. Other ordinances were performed but numbers are less accurate. This includes sealing and baptisms for the dead.
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| Willard and Jenetta Richards were sealed |
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| Best known photograph of Nauvoo |
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| Joseph Smith |
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| Nauvoo map |
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| Items in a trunk to go west in the wagon, doillies and ceramics |
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| A typical wagon load |
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| Lots of study behind where to go? They thought they were going to Upper California, which was then part of Mexico. |
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| crossing the Mississippi from Nauvoo on ice |
Leaving Nauvoo
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