Tour Historic Nauvoo's missionary instruction center, museum and first library, where men and women once sat to listen to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
The Seventies were men who belonged to a priesthood quorum, or group, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as missionaries. They built the hall in 1844 as their headquarters and as a place for lectures, worship services, the library, and a museum.
When the Saints moved west, they took the library's books with them and in Salt Lake City founded the first public library between Missouri and California.
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