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Title
UPTLA #108
Description
Nauvoo Road
Creator
Ontario members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Descendants and relatives of Archibald Gardner, & The Utah Pioneer Trails &
Landmarks Association
Descendants and relatives of Archibald Gardner, & The Utah Pioneer Trails &
Landmarks Association
Date
1946
Identifier
UPTLA-108
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Subtitle
Nauvoo Road
Story
In 1846 a group of converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enroute from Gardner's Mills to Nauvoo, Ill., chopped a road through the forest to reach the London Road. Among them was Archibald Gardner the first settler of Alvinston who built the first grist mill in Brooke Township. The Nauvoo Road sanctioned as a Brooke Township highway Nov. 22, 1851, comprises that portion of Highway 79 from road allowance between concessions 8 & 9 to the northern township line. This stone from Gardner's Mill was contributed by the Brooke and Alvinston Agricultural Society to whom it was presented by Duncan J. McEachern who provided for its removal from the original mill site on the east bank of the Sydenham River.
Factoid
The dedication of a monument commemorating the building of the Nauvoo Road was held by the Gardner family, members of the Church in Ontario, and the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association in Alvinston, Lambton County, Ontario, on 16 August 1946. The monument incorporated one of the original stones from the gristmill of Archibald Gardner, who had joined the Church in 1845 and who led a group of converts to Nauvoo in 1846, clearing a six-mile road through the forest. https://rsc.byu.edu/canadian-mormons/ontario
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