This is the marker that was installed in a beautiful park dedicated to the Coast Guard. It says thanks to the City of Quincy for their kindness and compassion in taking in the Mormons who had been driven from Missouri and were destitute. Many families took in entire families and kept them for the winter, feeding and clothing them. The Latter-day Saints moved to Missouri to build homes and farm. Because they began to outnumber the old settlers, the old settlers wanted to drive them out. The Saints applied to the governor for aid in not being molested, but the old settlers burned homes, assaulted people and at Haun's Mill, murdered 17 men and boys. The Governor wasn't any help. He thought the Mormons ought to be exterminated. He issued an order stating that the Mormons were to leave the state or be exterminated. The Saints lost their homes, their farms, everything they had and fled across the state to Illinois. When the restored Nauvoo Temple was dedicated, President Gordon B. Hinckley, brought the Mormon Tablernacle Choir to give a concert in this park. The entire city turned out. At that time, he handed the Mayor of Quincy a check to help with whatever Quincy had need of.
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