Far West was an important Latter-day Saint settlement in the 1830s before conflict forced its residents from the area. Cornerstones from the planned temple remain on the preserved site, creating a quiet but highly specific religious-history stop.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: history.churchofjesuschrist.org/subsection/historic-sites/missouri/far-west