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Whitney StoreSteve Mortensen, 2003
Joseph Smith and his
family lived in an upper room of this store from September
12, 1832, to about February 1834.
Translation Room in the Whitney StoreWelden Andersen, 1987In this room Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon "completed the translation and review of the New Testament" in February 1833. On July 2, 1833, the Prophet recorded, "We this day finished the translating of the Scriptures [entire Bible], for which we returned gratitude to our Heavenly Father" (History of the Church, 1:324, 368).The New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Area of the USAChurch History Maps.
1. South
Bainbridge: Joseph Smith Jr. and Emma Hale were married here
on 18 January 1827 (see JS-H 1:57).
2. Colesville:
The first branch of the Church was organized at the Joseph
Knight Sr. home, in Colesville Township, in 1830.
3. Joseph Smith
Jr. Home in Harmony: Most of the translation of the Book
of Mormon was completed here. On the banks of the
Susquehanna River the priesthood was restored in 1829
(see D&C 13; 128:20; JS-H 1:71-72).
4. Fayette: The
Three Witnesses saw the gold plates and the angel Moroni
(D&C 17). The Book of Mormon translation was completed
here in June 1829. The Church was organized here on 6
April 1830 (see D&C 20, 21).
5. Mendon: Early
home of Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball.
6. Kirtland:
Missionaries who had been sent to the Lamanites stopped here
in 1830 and baptized Sidney Rigdon and others in the
Kirtland area. It was the headquarters of the Church
from 1831 to 1838. The first temple of this
dispensation was built in Kirtland and was dedicated 27
March 1836 (see D&C 109).
7. Erie Canal:
The three branches of the Church in New York emigrated via
the Erie Canal and Lake Erie to Kirtland, Ohio, in April and
May 1831.
8. Hiram: Joseph
and Emma lived here from September 1831 to September
1832. Joseph and Sidney Rigdon worked on the Joseph Smith
Translation of the Bible (JST). Revelations received
here: D&C 1, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77,
79, 80, 81, 99, 133.
9. Amherst:
Joseph Smith was sustained as President of the High
Priesthood on 25 January 1832 (see HC 1:243; D&C 75).
10. Toronto: Home
of John Taylor, third President of the Church, and Mary
Fielding Smith, wife of Hyrum Smith.
Kirtland, Ohio, 1830–1838Church History Maps.
1. Newel K.
Whitney Home: Joseph and Emma lived here for several weeks
after they first moved to Kirtland in 1831.
2. Isaac Morley
Farm: Joseph and Emma Smith lived here from March until
September 1831. The first high priests were ordained here.
Joseph worked on the Joseph Smith Translation (JST).
3. Newel K.
Whitney Store: The First Presidency of the Church was given
the keys of the kingdom here. The School of the Prophets
first met here. The JST was in the process of
completion here in 1833. Joseph and Emma lived here
from 1832 to 1833. Joseph received many revelations here.
4. John Johnson
Inn: Joseph Smith Sr. was called as the first Patriarch
to the Church here in 1833. The inn contained the first
printing office in Kirtland. The Evening and the
Morning Star was printed here following the
destruction of the printing press in Jackson County,
Missouri. The Twelve Apostles left from here on 4 May
1835 for their first missions.
5. Joseph Smith
Jr. Home: Joseph and Emma lived here from 1834 to 1837.
Translation of the book of Abraham was started.
6. Printing
Office: The Lectures on Faith were delivered in this
building. The Twelve Apostles and the First Quorum of the
Seventy were called and ordained here. The Doctrine
and Covenants (1st edition), the Book of Mormon (2nd
edition), The Evening and the Morning Star, Latter Day
Saints' Messenger and Advocate, and the first issues of
Elders' Journal were printed here.
7. Kirtland
Temple: This temple was the first in this dispensation.
Jesus Christ appeared and accepted the temple. Moses,
Elias, and Elijah appeared and restored certain
priesthood keys (see D&C 110). The School of the
Prophets also met here. Revelations received here: D&C
109, 110, 137.
Kirtland
(unspecified locations)
On 17 August 1835
the Doctrine and Covenants was adopted as scripture
(see HC 2:243-51). Revelations received in Kirtland include
D&C 41-50, 52-56, 63-64, 102-4, 106-10, 134, and
137. Section 104 designates certain properties to be
given as stewardships to Church members participating
in the united order.
Newel K. Whitney StoreGeorge Edward Anderson, 1907Here the First Presidency was organized. "I laid my hands on Brothers Sidney [Rigdon] and Frederick [G. Williams], and ordained them to take part with me in holding the keys of this last kingdom, and to assist in the Presidency of the High Priesthood, as my Counselors" (History of the Church, 1:334).Interior of the Whitney StoreVirtual Historian, 2004
Upon arriving in
Kirtland by sleigh, Joseph bounded into the Whitney Store
and "reached his hand across the counter to my husband, and
called him [Newel K. Whitney] by name." He then introduced
himself, saying "I am Joseph the Prophet; you have prayed me
here, now what do you want of me?" ("A Leaf from an
Autobiography," Woman's Exponent, Sept. 1, 1878, 51).
Joseph and Emma Smith's Room at the Whitney StoreSteve Mortensen, 2003
The Prophet and his
family lived in the Whitney store from September 1832 to
February 1834. Joseph Smith III was born in this bedroom on
November 6, 1832, the fourth of nine children born to Joseph
and Emma, and the first to survive to adulthood ("House of
Revelation," Ensign, Jan. 1993, 31, 34).
School of the Prophets Room in the Whitney StoreVirtual Historian, 2004
This room in the
Whitney Store was made at Joseph's request. It was to be
used for the School of the Prophets. The purpose of the
school was to "teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom
. . . that ye may be prepared in all things when I shall
send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have
called you. Behold I sent you out to testify and warn the
people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to
warn his neighbor" (D&C 88:77–81).
Room in the Whitney StoreVirtual Historian, 2004
Seventeen revelations
now recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants were revealed to
the Prophet in this place, including the oath and covenant
of the priesthood (D&C 84), the "olive leaf" (D&C
88), the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89), and the commandment to
build the first temple in this dispensation (see D&C
88:119).
Bishops' Storehouse in the Whitney StoreVirtual Historian, 2004
The bishops' storehouse
in Kirtland was located here, established "for the poor of
my people . . . to advance the cause, which ye have
espoused, to the salvation of man, and to the glory of your
Father who is in heaven" (D&C 78:3–4).
