1. Gustavus Hills, Map of the City of Nauvoo, 1842 (Nauvoo Restoration Inc., recopied 1965), copy located in Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

2. Dean R. Zimmerman, “Historic Sites,” a map from LDS Church History Atlas (Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, 1975), 171; and Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith, 2 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 2:516. The two maps are a good comparison study of how additions in site identification and continued restoration change the mapping of Nauvoo.

3. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (New York: Random House, 1965), 73.

4. Donald L. Enders, “Platting the City Beautiful: A Historical and Archaeological Glimpse of Nauvoo Streets,” BYU Studies 19 (Spring 1979): 410, 411, 413.

5. Enders, “Platting the City Beautiful,” 411–12.

6. The Nauvoo Restoration Inc. computerized index of land titles shows that many land owners of early Nauvoo held title to more than one lot. These records do not always confirm whether the owner subleased a home, had a business, or lived on the property.

7. Nauvoo Restoration Inc. computerized index of land titles.

8. Daniel Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 4:1480.

9. E. Cecil McGavin, Nauvoo the Beautiful (Salt Lake City: Stevens & Wallis, 1946), 300–308.

10. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and T. Jeffery Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa (Santa Aria: Fieldbrook Productions, 1990), 23. See also their article in this issue.

11. “Historic Nauvoo,” Nauvoo Restoration Inc. visitors map (Nauvoo, Ill.: Nauvoo Restoration Inc., 1988).

12. Janath Cannon, Nauvoo Panorama (Nauvoo, Ill.: Nauvoo Restoration Inc., 1991), map prepared by Rowena Miller, 20.

13. Jessee, The Papers of Joseph Smith, 516.

14. Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 119.

15. I would like to thank several people who have helped with our Nauvoo map. Jeffery Cottle shared his research and time, Mary Isom of Nauvoo Restoration Inc. kindly did some extra research in Nauvoo, and Jeffry Bird of the BYU Geography Department lent his expertise and computers to draft our final copy.

MeLínda Evans Jeffress

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