November 23, 1843

Nauvoo, Illinois

Joseph Smith suggested "petitioning Congress for a grant to make a canal over the falls [around the Des Moines rapids], or a dam to turn the water to the city, so that we might erect mills and other machinery."

Sources:

History of the Church, Joseph Smith,

Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,

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