Joseph Smith Frame Home

After working the farm for a few years, Joseph Smith Senior's family accumulated enough resources to build a more comfortable home. Alvin, the Smith's eldest child, started the house in 1823 but died of illness soon afterward. The family continued to build the house and finished and moved in the year 1825.

Joseph Smith brought the golden plates, which he found in the Hill Cumorah, to this house after retrieving it on 22 of September 1827. He hid the ancient record in several different spots around and outside the house including under the bricks of the fireplace, and in between his younger sisters, as they slept in their bed. The mobs that would raid the house and farm to try and find the record never discovered it in Joseph's different hiding locations.

In 1829, the Smith's lost the farm and house due to unfortunate circumstances, and had to move back to the small log home they lived in previously. They eventually moved with the rest of the members of the newly organized church to Kirtland, Ohio.

The original Joseph Smith Frame Home still resides on the location of the Smith's original farmland. Visitors are welcome.