Hyde Park was a small farming community just west of here, founded in 1847 by Mormon pioneers and named for Orson Hyde, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who took up residence there after returning that spring from a Church mission in England. During the summer of 1847, while Brigham Young and other Church officials led the advance pioneer company to the Great Salt Lake Valley, Hyde remained in the Missouri Valley to preside over members, enclosing 50 acres with a split-rail fence and planting 30 acres. When most of the other Apostles returned from Utah, the presiding Quorum of the Twelve resumed its regular meetings, and at Hyde's home on 5 December 1847 it voted to call Brigham Young as President of the Church and ratified his choice of Apostles Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards as counselors in the First Presidency. At another meeting there the next day, the Quorum decided to build a large log tabernacle in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, immediately and a temple in Salt Lake City in the future. Three weeks later, on 27 December 1847, the First Presidency was sustained by a conference of the general membership held in the new tabernacle. Hyde Park retained its prominence for five years as wagons moved west, with Orson Hyde continuing to preside over the Church in Iowa and publish The Frontier Guardian newspaper, until he and a majority of the Saints still in the area moved to Utah in 1852; after a further exodus in 1853, few Mormons remained.