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English
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A Tale of Two Bells : Nauvoo Bell and Hummer's Bell
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Nauvoo Journal
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Fall 1999
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11
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no.2
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31-42
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The stories of two bells dating to Brigham Young's era have, over the course of time, become intertwined. The original Nauvoo bell, transported across the plains in 1847, cracked during the winter of 1849-50 and was melted down and recast. The recast bell was hung in Brigham Young's schoolhouse in 1860. It was removed in 1902 when the schoolhouse was demolished. The recast bell was hung in a campanile on Temple Square in 1966. The bell known as Hummer's bell was made for a Presbyterian church in Iowa City, Iowa, in the 1840s. The strange story of how this bell ended up being transported to Salt Lake in Shadrach Roundy's company in 1850 is recounted. The present whereabouts of this bell is not known.