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〕 |population_total = 2324 |population_density_km2 = 268.6 |population_density_sq_mi = 695.8 |timezone = Central (CST) |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 343 |elevation_ft = 1125 |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |latd = 40 |latm = 37 |lats = 21 |latNS = N |longd = 93 |longm = 56 |longs = 1 |longEW = W |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 50140 |area_code = 641 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 19-42960 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0458214 |website = |footnotes = }} Lamoni is a city in Decatur County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,324 at the 2010 census. Lamoni is the home of Graceland University, affiliated with the Community of Christ and was the church's headquarters from 1880 to 1920 when it moved to Independence, Missouri. ==History== The Lamoni area was first settled in 1834 to 1840 by people who thought they were settling in slave-owning Missouri. It was only after the Sullivan Line separating Missouri and Iowa was formally surveyed when Iowa became a state in 1846 that they realized they were in non-slave-owning Iowa. In 1851, refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 sought to settle the area and form the community of New Buda (named for a neighborhood of Budapest). However, their efforts did not result in a significant settlement.〔 Joseph Smith III in 1870 authorized the Order of Enoch to purchase over three thousand acres (12 km²) to form a Church of Christ community. Smith lived in Liberty Hall which is now a museum. The city was named after Lamoni, a king mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Lamoni, which is just north of the Missouri border, was chosen because of its good farmland and because of its being about 100 miles north of Temple Lot which is an important location of church teachings. The Mormons had been evicted from Temple Lot and Missouri in the Mormon War (1838). Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young had passed through the community in 1846, staying at nearby Garden Grove, Iowa, while en route from Nauvoo, Illinois, (where they had settled after being forced to leave Missouri) to Salt Lake City, Utah.〔 The town was formally platted adjacent to newly laid tracks of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1879. By 1900, its population had grown to 1,500.〔 Smith, who was in a deepening schism with Brigham Young and the Utah branch, moved with church headquarters from Plano, Illinois, in 1880.〔 In 1895,the church founded Graceland University in Lamoni. After the Smith family moved to Independence to the area near Temple Lot in 1916, Liberty Hall served as a home for the aged, a farmhouse, CCC Headquarters, and a private residence before becoming the museum it is today. Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg, members of the church and affiliated with the church owned General Supply Company which owned Lamoni mills, hardware and grocery stores, started a grocery store chain called the Supply Store in 1930 which in turn became Hy-Vee (from their two names). Lamoni remained the company's headquarters until 1945 when it moved to Chariton, Iowa.〔http://www.hy-vee.com/webres/File/Lamoni_Years.pdf〕 Lamoni area has a sizable Amish community, where businesses are not open on Sundays. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamoni, Iowa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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