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Joseph Smith Birthplace – Sharon, Vermont
Today the 38.5 foot monument sits a few steps from the site of the New England home that Lucy Mack Smith gave birth to Joseph Smith. This monument was raised 100 years after Joseph Smith’s birth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints created the monument with inscriptions describing Joseph Smith’s life and his…
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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…