Palmyra, NY & Kirtland, OH

Hill Cumorah

The Smith Log home

Around 1818 Joseph Smith, Sr., his wife, Lucy Mack smith, and their eight children moved from Palmyra village to Stafford Road, just north of the 100 acres they planned to acquire. They built a log home and outbuildings where they resided for approximately seven years.

In late 1825 they moved a few hundred feet south to their new frame home. Their son, Hyrum, had arranged to purchase the eighty acres of land surrounding the log home. Following his marriage to Jerusha Barden, in November of 1826, Hyrum and his wife resided in the log home.

In the spring of 1829, Father and Mother Smith and their younger children returned to the log home where they lived with Hyrum’s family until the fall of 1830.

the side of the home with the Sacred Grove in the background

inside the log home

From the Sacred Grove, the Log home and the Visitors Center

Palmyra Temple

The Smith frame home that Alvin started building.

The Smiths’ oldest son, Alvin, planned the construction of this handsome New England-style farmhouse to provide for his future family and to care for his parents in their elderly years. Having apprenticed as a builder, he managed the initial construction himself. By the fall of 1823 the heavy timber frame had been raised. That November Alvin died suddenly, and construction sat idle for months. The Smiths finally moved into the home in late 1825, even though much of the finishing work remained to be done.

many original pieces of he home still stand.

the Alvin tree~

planted when he died.

Sacred Grove in the background

the farm

The Sacred Grove

just outside the grove

The Grandin Building. Palmyra, NY

Press Store Front

where the text and pages are inked

Kirtland, Ohio

The Whitney Home~

where Joseph & Emma lived for some time.

The Ashery in Kirtland

the Kirtland Temple

I wanted to take some pictures of Palmyra & Kirtland before we moved so we can always remember these places. This entry I decided to post all the pictures of these historic places.... Kind of as a remembrance of them. None with us in them.... just kind of an eye's view of these places. Who knows, if we move back west, when we will get to visit them again?!?! I feel very, very blessed to have been able to visit these places that I have learned about my entire life. It was very sombering to be there with my parents. My parents, nate & i talked about how it is hard to describe the feeling that is there. Such remarkable things occurred there, yet it was a simple place. I think you just build them up in your mind forgetting that it was just a farm, a secluded grove, and just a log cabin that God the Father, Jesus, and Moroni appeared to Joseph in. The feeling there is amazing and just comfortable.