Category: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sites
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Nauvoo
People are still attracted to this wide bend on the Mississippi river for numerous reasons as outlined below. Nauvoo can be a place of great refuge and inspiration or a crowded tourist trap. It is what you make of it. This article of tips and insight, gleamed over decades of travel, to the City of…
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Hill Cumorah – Palmyra, New York
In geological terms this “hill” located in upstate New York is technically considered a drumlin: a low oval mound that is part of a group of little hills composed of compacted boulder clay that was molded by past glacial action
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Historic Johnson Home, Hiram Ohio
The Johnson Family Farm is located in Hiram Ohio, about 30 miles south of Kirtland Ohio. In this area many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began gathering in the early 1830’s. The lives of the Johnson’s intersected with the church in 1831 when nineteen year old Lyman Johnson developed a…
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Pioneer Cemetery and Monument – Richmond, Missouri
The city of Richmond Missouri has two cemetery’s of interest to followers of the latter day saint movement. Oliver Cowdery, one of the three witnesses and an early scribe for Joseph Smith, is buried somewhere in the small Pioneer Cemetery. He died in Richmond after rejoining the Church at Winter Quarters and coming back to…
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Nauvoo Temple
Nauvoo Temple History The Nauvoo Temple was the second temple built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its cornerstones, laid on April 6, 1841, would await the temple’s completion for many years. In fact, from accounts it would seem that the first construction of this temple was never totally completed. Although In…