Historic Nauvoo South Visitors' Center

"In August 2025, we visited the Historic Nauvoo South Visitor's Center in Nauvoo, Illinois. The South Visitor's Center used to belong to the Community of Christ Church, and in March 2024, the LDS Church bought these properties. The South Visitor's Center has been repainted on the interior, and it will eventually be remodeled to have clever displays and exhibits. We are looking forward to the future remodeled South Visitor's Center."

"I do not know if we have met a nicer group of people at a tourist site. Everyone was genuinely happy and proud to be working and sharing their history. True dedication, which is something more of our world could use right now. It was a very interesting history lesson."

"My daughter and I got to walk in the historic footsteps of Joseph Smith and the Early LDS Church. Memories are made here between families and relatives. Beautiful place."

"A very sad place for these individuals who where just trying to live good and to be forced out of their homes to walk across the frozen Mississippi River towards SLC."

"The homes of Joseph and Emma Smith. No photos allowed inside. They are owned by the Church of Christ, previously the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."