Tag: church history

  • Martin’s Cove

    Martin’s Cove

    In 1856, close to 1,500 people all part of the Martin and Willie handcart companies and the Hodgetts, Hunt, and Smoot wagon companies became stranded on the high plains of present-day Wyoming in the dead of winter. Most of these groups were traveling from Iowa to present-day Utah to join with many others of their…

  • Red Brick Store – Nauvoo, IL

    Red Brick Store – Nauvoo, IL

    Utilization of the Red Brick Store’s upper room would fluctuate depending on the series of events that transpired in Nauvoo over the next 30 years. Obviously, as thousands left their homes to travel to Utah in 1846, the store was not required to the same extent for church purposes.

  • Historic Johnson Home, Hiram Ohio

    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…

  • Independence Missouri Visitor Center

    Independence Missouri Visitor Center

    The Independence Missouri Visitor Center is a great starting point for all Missouri Church History sites belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the center you will learn about the experiences of early Latter-day Saint settlers in Missouri and about Jesus Christ, families, latter-day prophets, and the Book of Mormon.

  • 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.

  • Haun’s Mill, Missouri

    Haun’s Mill, Missouri

    In the fall of 1838 about 75 families, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, lived in the small settlement of Haun’s Mill in northwestern Missouri. Like many of the other places members of the Church of Jesus Christ tried to live, misunderstanding and distrust greeted them.