Posted by:
Wally Prince
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Date: October 31, 2018 11:52PM
in the initial stages, it looked like Joseph Smith and company were planning on establishing the church in that area.
I have not previously come across information about a planned temple location in that area, but it seems very plausible.
If they had planned a temple there and then the plans fell through, that is not something they would want to emphasize or talk about later on. People and organizations don't like to talk about big past failures.
You may want to go through some of the contemporary newspapers about Joseph Smith and his followers in that region.
You can see some of them collected here:
http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/smithtx5bib.htm