Country Profiles
USA-Wisconsin
In 1841, after early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had drained the swampland and built the community of Nauvoo, Illinois, a group of Church members entered the Wisconsin area to gather timber. They floated the pine logs down the Black River to Nauvoo, using the lumber for construction of the Nauvoo Temple and other buildings.By 1843, there were more than 150 people at the Black River Settlement. When Church members learned they were working on Native American territory, they paid for the wood and preached to the Native Americans.
When persecution forced the Latter-day Saints to leave Nauvoo in 1847, many Wisconsin members joined the westward trek. Missionary efforts resumed in the state in 1878, with a congregation formed in 1899, and a chapel built in 1907.
Membership | 23,554 |
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Missions | 1 |
Congregations | 67 |
Family History Centers | 24 |