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The Sacred Grove—property owned by the LDS Church—is open to visitors. Visitors to the area are able to walk through the grove on a series of interconnecting dirt trails. The majority of the trees within the Sacred Grove are too young to have been present at the time the Smith family lived there.
The Smith Family Farm was the boyhood home of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. [1]The farm—located in the townships of Palmyra, Wayne County and Manchester, Ontario County, New York—includes the Sacred Grove, the Smiths' restored frame home, and a reconstructed log home. [2]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds a number of sites as historically significant. This list is intended as a quick reference for these sites. The sites may or may not be owned by the church.
Stained glass depiction of Joseph Smith's First Vision, completed in 1913 by an unknown artist (Church History Museum, Salt Lake City).. The First Vision (also called the grove experience by members of the Community of Christ) refers to a theophany which Latter Day Saints believe Joseph Smith experienced in the early 1820s, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, called the Sacred Grove.
Nearby is the grove of trees known as the Sacred Grove where the church's founder and first president, Joseph Smith, said he saw God the Father and Jesus Christ, an event known as the First Vision. The temple grounds, on the border between the towns of Manchester and Palmyra, are also on the grounds of the original Smith Family Farm.
Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site; Brigham Young Complex; ... Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints) St. James Township, Michigan; Sharon, Vermont; Smith Family Farm;
The LDS Church was organized on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York under the name of the Church of Christ. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.41% in 2014. [3] According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, less than 1% of New Yorkers self-identify themselves most closely with the LDS ...
The Latter Day Saint movement arose in the Palmyra and Manchester area of western New York, where its founder Joseph Smith was raised during a period of religious revival in the early 19th century called the Second Great Awakening, a Christian response to the secularism of the Age of Enlightenment which extended throughout the United States, particularly the frontier areas of the west.