Item Detail
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28432
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1
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1
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English
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Historic Sites and Markets : Morley's Settlement
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Nauvoo Journal
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Spring 1999
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11
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no.1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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153-155
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Morley's Settlement (or "Yelrome"), a Mormon community of some seventy families, once thrived (1839-1845) twenty-five miles south of Nauvoo, Illinois. It no longer exists and is all but erased from the landscape. Today, tiny Tioga sits on some of the Morley Settlement properties. Anti-Mormon arsonists burned Morley's Settlement to the ground in the fall of 1845, ending its existence. To date, no in-depth history of the settlement, the arson, or the murder of Edmund Durfee that was part of that terrible story, has been written. What follows is a beginning attempt to fill that void. [From the text]