Tag: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  • 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…

  • Nauvoo Printing Office – Nauvoo, IL

    Nauvoo Printing Office – Nauvoo, IL

    Nauvoo Printing Office History In the 19th century the Nauvoo Printing Office produced two papers, one for the community and the other for the official paper of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints called the “Times and Seasons”. Prior to settling in Nauvoo, Illinois Members of the Church of Jesus Christ had a…

  • 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.

  • Newel K Whitney Store – Kirtland Ohio

    Newel K Whitney Store – Kirtland Ohio

    The N.K. Whitney & Co. became a temporary home for Joseph Smith and his family after they moved to Kirtland in the fall of 1832