FLDS in Eldorado has been very busy in the last month. They have completed a home and green metal building believed to be a refinery for sugar cane. They also have added many slabs to existing metal buildings, substantially adding square feet. This round of photos center on commercial or industrial buildings rather than domiciles. The incarceration of Warren has little effect on FLDS in Eldorado.
Closer shots this time of tombstone on the grave of FLDS lady. I have heard it was very beautiful with scripted writing . I am sorry for your loss.
FLDS is turning rock land that is not very good to fertile farm land by digging to base, using rocks and limestone for their roads and replacing with fertile black soil; very ingenious but labor intensive. Kudos to FLDS for their ingenuity and work ethic.
Enjoy the photos. They are my gift to you and may everyone have a safe and Merry Christmas.
Lord have mercy - if the avian flu arrives I might have to convert!
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Great pics as usual Pilot, thanks. Merry Christmas to each of you and your families.
ReplyDeleteThey're building a new Nauvoo!
ReplyDeleteThink it was posted on another thread that FLDS members were leaving Hildale, UT/ Colorado City, AZ Here's a link from SLC newspaper.
ReplyDeleteGone to Texas?
Thanks for the excellent photos pilot.
tbm
ReplyDeleteThere may be more truth to that than you know. I highly doubt that YFZ will ever have the popularity or population that Nauvoo enjoyed however.
Could someone in the CC area post which houses are now empty? I'm curious if the house my dad built is one of them.
ReplyDeleteNew Era manufacturing is expanding to Texas, they have assigned a whole flock to the priesthood project of machining for the company.
ReplyDeletefttc: I guess it'll depend on whether all the FLDS move there or not. Nauvoo grew to 20,000 in four years, and I believe the FLDS have about 10,000 followers? Given Mormonism's doctrines of "gathering", and its history of moving en masse in the face of opposition, my guess is that everyone will be expected to gather at YFZ.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be interesting to observe. I've heard it argued (although not convincingly) that Nauvoo was not, in fact, economically viable and would have collapsed and disappeared eventually. Since it's probably unlikely that the local non-Mormons are going to drive the FLDS out, as happened in Nauvoo (and which would tend to have a somewhat deleterious effect upon the city's economy!), YFZ may provide a clue of what Nauvoo's ultimate destiny would actually have been.
It'll also be interesting to see how many of the FLDS stay behind. For anyone who wants to jump ship, now will be the ideal time!
TBM
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can verify this for my but my memory of the history of Nauvoo was that the majority of the inhabitants did not leave to come west. In spite of the gathering mode that the LDS seem to have and the FLDS did have several years ago, warren has instigated a policy of scatter and divide. He has compuounds and work projects in all directions from the starting point of CC/Hildale. There are indications of perhaps three foreign nations as well.
I don't have a figure for the actual number of people who followed Brigham Young west. Frank McLynn, author of "Wagons West" (a history of the wagon emigrations to California and Oregon in the 1840's, and which covers the Mormons), states "3285 families". Given that families back then tended to be large by today's standard, I would think that must indicate a substantial majority of Nauvoo's population.
ReplyDeleteThere were also several splinter groups which moved elsewhere: the Strangites moved to Wisconsin; Sidney Rigdon took a handful to Pennsylvania; another group went to Texas, I think. But these were all relatively small. There was certainly a number which simply stayed behind in Illinois, including Joseph Smith's family. But they all had to move out of Nauvoo, which was pretty much a ghost town by September 1846.
FTTC;
ReplyDelete3 foreign countries? What is the third one?
Isn't Texas a foreign country?
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ReplyDeleteOnly to outsiders. After being here one month they will begin to deny their place of birth. They are often heard saying, "I might not have been born in Texas but, we got here as quickly as we could!" Then, when they learn to say Howdy and y'all, buy a pickup truck, eat chicken fried steak at least five times a week and know that chili con carne has neither tomatoes nor beans, they are well on the way to becoming a "REAL TEXAN."
Texas Born and Bred
'taint none better
There have been some rumors of a project in Germany. How did Wendell Nelson fall off the radar screen without a trace?
ReplyDeletechili con carne has no beans! I am truly not culturally aware - do tell - what is IN chili con carne.
ReplyDeleteA project in Germany....lord have mercy, he's going back to the mother ship.
LOL
ReplyDeleteThat was my thought also.
is there any truth to the story that warren read hitlers' book and was quite impressed with das fuerher? that would explaine germany maybe.
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Texas once succeeded as it's own country in the 1800's but I don't think it was EVER a foreign country!
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ReplyDeleteI think you will find Wendell,David Allred and other missing Warrenites in Birmingham Alabama.David Allred purchased a house there in 2001 long before Rulon passed away.Why Alabama?Why not Alabama?No one knows the Flds there.It is far enough from the Trenholm polygamist colony in north Ga. not to attract attention,So the Flds as such wouldnt be stand out as such.Alabama has some Protestant sects that dress very much like the Flds.
Hey Anon 12:22
ReplyDeleteHow do you know about Wendell Neilson? I have been wondering about his whereabouts. He is not much for low profile!
Thanks 12:22 Anon
ReplyDeleteDo you have any clue as to how one could prove there is activity in Alabama? Have you seen recent proof of this? I have a sister that seems to have disappeared. I suspect she is in the Texas compound but now I wonder. Any other information or clues would be appreciated.