GC3ERQA Where my Great GrandFather worked (Traditional Cache) in Illinois, United States created by Rocky20

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Hidden : 3/17/2012

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Size: Size: small (small)

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From the overlook - one can see where my great grandfather worked as overseer and captain of the Lime Stone Quarry.
The Quarry is flooded now because of the Mississippi dam at Keokuk, IA which raised the river level by 30 feet (Dam created in 1913)

The Lime stone quarry was opened Oct 1840 and A. P. Rockwood was appointed the overseer or captian of the quarry assisted by Charles Drury. Blasting was the usual method of obtaining blocks for the building of the Temple. Workmen bored holes in the limestone using brace and bit drills, then tamped powder into the holes. Next, rope fuse was insertyed and lit. The workers were required to move a safe distance away, about 250 feet and take cover. After the blast, the workmen would return and do rough shaping of the larger stones, using hammer and chisel. Many stones weighed as much as two tons. About four tons of powder was used to quarry the temple rock.
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Work at the quarry was not glamorous, it was dangerous and physically demanding. Thousands of men and women were involved in the quarry and moving the rock to the current bluff to build the temple, where the current Nauvoo Temple now stands. The current Nauvoo Temple stands on the same foot print as the first Temple. The current temple is a copy of the origional temple.
In April of 1999 the LDS Church announced it would rebuild the Nauvoo Temple. The Temple was completed and dedicated in 2002. The Current temple is the same size and is a close copy of the orginal temple inside and out.
The quarry opened Oct. 1840 and tons of stone was taken out creating the First Nauvoo LDS Temple, The First Temple was completed May 1846. The origional temple was burned by an arsonist in 1848 and a tornado destroyed the walls of the temple and in the 1860 the stones were use in other buildings in the area.

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