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The Mansion House & Smith Homestead – Nauvoo, IL
Joseph Smith and his family moved to Nauvoo in 1839 and used their home as Church Headquarters. This log home was also called ‘the homestead’
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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…
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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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The Eight Witnesses Monument
The granite that composes the eight witnesses monument was quarried from the same deposit that was used to construct the Three Witnesses Monument as well as the Joseph Smith Memorial over a century ago.
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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…