Editing Nauvoo, Alabama (section)

==History==
The town of Nauvoo was founded in 1888, during the construction of the Northern Alabama Railway, and was formerly a center of coal mining.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.walkerweb.net/towns/nauvoo.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716213157/http://www.walkerweb.net/towns/nauvoo.htm|title=Local Towns: Nauvoo, Alabama|work=WalkerWeb.net|publisher=WalkerWeb|archive-date=16 July 2012|access-date=21 November 2019}}. An earlier settlement in northwestern Alabama, also called "Nauvoo," is marked on the [https://www.loc.gov/item/99447017/ "Military map showing the marches of the United States forces under command of Maj. Genl. W. T. Sherman, U.S.A., during the years 1863, 1864, 1865."] (St. Louis, Mo.: 1865); but this appears to be a distinct settlement, with the same name, located at a different site. (The community marked as "Nauvoo" on the 1865 map is located near the Mississippi state line and next to [[Old Burleson, Alabama|Burleson]], in [[Franklin County, Alabama|Franklin County]]; the contemporary town of Nauvoo is located at an entirely different site far to the southeast, in between [[Kansas, Alabama]] and [[Houston, Alabama]], on the county line between [[Walker County, Alabama|Walker County]] and [[Winston County, Alabama|Winston County]].)</ref> The town grew out of isolated agricultural settlements on the Walker County-Winston County line, which had been known unofficially as Blackwell's Crossing and Ingle Mills (or Ingle's Mill) after prominent local landowners.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Margaret Earley|date=1991|title=Memories of Nauvoo|publisher=Treasured Memories|location=Marietta, Georgia|pages=1–2}}</ref> Railroad construction drove the development of the town center on Joshua Blackwell's property, but he declined to have the new town be named officially in his honor. The local resident Tom Carroll suggested the name "Nauvoo," after [[Nauvoo, Illinois]] &mdash; a city founded by [[Mormon]] prophet [[Joseph Smith]] in 1839 and later the site of an [[Icarians|Icarian]] colony settlement &mdash; reportedly "because he had admired the [Illinois] town... in his earlier travels through that state."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3894|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108145616/http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3894|title=Cities and Towns: Nauvoo|author=James P. Kaetz|publisher=Encyclopedia of Alabama|archive-date=8 November 2019|access-date=21 November 2019}}</ref> By 1891, the town was mentioned in the ''Winston Herald'' as "Nauvoo, a flourishing town with three stores and one steam gin doing good business."<ref>Quoted in {{cite book|last=Lee|first=Margaret Earley|date=1991|title=Memories of Nauvoo|publisher=Treasured Memories|location=Marietta, Georgia|page=3}}</ref> Nauvoo incorporated in 1906.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bureau of the Census|title=Reports of the Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Volume II: Population 1910, Reports By States, with Statistics for Counties, Cities and Other Civil Divisions (Alabama-Montana)|date=1913|publisher=Government Printing Office|location=Washington, D.C.|at=p. 34, n. 5|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/volume-2/volume-2-p2.pdf}}</ref>

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