Category: Mormon History Site

  • Far West Temple Site: Far West, Missouri

    Far West Temple Site: Far West, Missouri

    The Far West Temple Site is a square plot of land with pristine grass. Inside it’s gates it preserves the corner stones that were set many years ago in preparation for the fulfillment of a prophecy.

  • Church of Christ Temple Lot: Independence, Missouri

    Church of Christ Temple Lot: Independence, Missouri

    Church of Christ Temple Lot has held onto the temple lot for nearly 150 years. The lot spans for about 2 acres, and houses a small building

  • Adam-ondi-Ahman – Missouri

    Adam-ondi-Ahman – Missouri

    Joseph Smith selected this site for a settlement on a beautiful elevated spot resting above a fertile valley skirting the Grand river. While Joseph gazed admiringly upon the scene, the word of the Lord came to him naming the area Adam-ondi-Ahman, because “it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people” (D&C…

  • Carthage Jail – Carthage, Illinois

    Carthage Jail – Carthage, Illinois

    Carthage Jail was established as the Hancock County jail in 1839 for people convicted of minor offences including petty thievery and debtors. The jail keepers family actually lived on site which is why the building contained a kitchen, dining room, and then on the second floor a single bedroom. At the time Joseph Smith, Hyrum…

  • Liberty Jail – Liberty, Missouri

    Liberty Jail – Liberty, Missouri

    Today in place of Liberty Jail the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built a ‘Historic Liberty Jail Visitors’ Center’. A tour through the visitors’ center takes less than an hour as the guides inform you about Joseph Smith’s incarceration.

  • Kirtland Temple – Kirtland, Ohio

    Kirtland Temple – Kirtland, Ohio

    In the first few years of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founder, Joseph Smith received instructions how to build a temple. That temple was to be built in Kirtland, Ohio. Built from sandstone. It also took years of labor but the temple was completed on March 27, 1836.