For many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the small Ohio town of Kirtland holds much history. Some ...

The Reorganized Church — which became the Community of Christ in 2001 — obtained the Kirtland Temple through Joseph Smith’s son. Joseph Smith III bought the temple through a quit-claim deed ...

Perched atop a hill in the heart of Kirtland, the Joseph and Emma Smith Home has seen its share of residents and architectural changes over nearly 200 years of ...

This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's ... migrate from New York to Ohio in 1831. There, in Kirtland, Smith received his first taste of mob violence.

The growing community plans a grand temple. The Mormons toil ... during a national speculative rush, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon establish the Kirtland Safety Society Bank.

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...