- Town/City
- Nauvoo
- County
- Hancock County
- State/Province
- Illinois
- Country
- United States of America
Nauvoo post office, Nauvoo, Illinois
Summary
First post office located in area known as Venus, near west end of present-day Parley Street, 1830–1834. Name changed to Commerce post office, 11 Oct. 1834. Renamed Nauvoo post office, 21 Apr. 1840, with George W. Robinson appointed postmaster. Robinson operated post office in Lower Stone House and lived there with father-in-law, Sidney Rigdon. Rigdon appointed postmaster, 24 Feb. 1841. Robinson and Rigdon moved to second house, which became new post office, on corner of Main and Sidney streets, before Mar. 1843. JS and others expressed frustration with inappropriate operation of post office, Nov. 1842 and Oct. 1843. Post office later housed briefly in red brick building at corner of Kimball and Main streets, after 1844. Following Saints’ exodus from city, 1846, post office moved to Amos Davis’s store, located on hill just south of temple.
Links
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843
- Letter from Udney H. Jacob, 6 January 1844
- Minutes, 10 March 1842 [ City of Nauvoo v. Davis for Slander of JS–A ]
- Minutes, 25 May 1844