170 years ago today - Jun 12, 1843

Joseph Smith approves a decision two days previously by a "court martial" "That an arsenal be built in the city of Nauvoo, to be located in any part of the city where the lieutenant and major generals may direct, who are also authorized to make or cause to be made, a draft of the same, and also to purchase any piece of land for the aforesaid purposes which they may deem proper." Joseph Smith takes Rhoda Richards as a plural wife.

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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