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A Massive Limestone Carving From a 19th-Century Mormon Temple Reminds Us of Americans’ Many Quests to Forge New Communities

Mormon, sunstone, National Museum of American History

By Barbara Clark Smith
October 21, 2014

One of 12 sunstones that ornamented a Mormon temple built in Nauvoo, Illinois in the early 1840s.

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