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The Sacred Grove

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.
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Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.
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The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.
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Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.
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