Smith Second Home and Farm

Just down the lane from the Smith log home the Smith's built a larger home. Both homes reside on the same farm. This house is 85% original.

 

The thing in the back of house is a water well.

Lucy's kitchen with her spice and herb drying rack.

Lucy never actually had one of these sinks. But she would say it would make to one of the best kitchens to have one.

Pantry

The bedroom of the side of the Kitchen. The one of two bedrooms downstairs. The upstairs is not able to be toured because there is only one entrance and as you walk from one house to the other, about 1000 yards you walk across the county line. In one county we can tour the other we can not. They also had a basement but that two we could not go down.

Dinning room table is just to the side of the kitchen. It is all one room.

China Cabinet in the dinning room. Just to the back of the cabinet to the side of the window is the entrance to the upstairs.

Entrance to the basement.

Here is the living room.

This is the fireplace in the living room. This is the one where the Golden Plate were hidden under the brinks in the hearth of the fireplace.

This room is 95% original which is why it is roped off because it is in a fragile state.

This bedroom shared a fireplace with the living room. It looked like the fireplace in the living room, this bedroom, and the kitchen all are close to each other to share the same chimney

Me in front of the house.

The barn is not the original barn. But the Church moved a Barn from another members farm that was still intact and moved it here to replicate the original barn that stood here on the Smith's property.

They would put the wheat in the center on the floor and they would take the racks and beat the wheat in the threshing process to break the grain free. They then pick up the chaff and shake them to drop any remaining grain.

The grain is then scooped up and put into bags and stored in the bins in a section of the Barn. When they would take the grain to the mill they would take enough for themselves for flour for their needs and also for payment for milling the grain.

Supply portion of the shed.

Water trough

This is the work shed where the Smith family had a barrel making business.

They actually made the barrels outside of the shed and only kept the finished product and tools in the shed.

When the Golden Plates were hidden in the Smith home Joseph received inspiration to move to Plates. He put them in a crate that had previously carried some of the glass from the windows of the home. He then pulled up a plank in the shed and hid the crate under the plank. A short time later he was instructed through inspiration to move the Plates. He took up the plank again and removed the Plates from the crate but left the crate under the floor and replaced the plank again. He then placed the Golder Plates in the loft in the shed the same loft you see in the picture below where the wood has been placed. When the mob came looking they pulled up the plank and found the empty crate they were angry and they left and never looked any further for the Plates.

These are bee hives they made to provide them with their sugar needs.

The Apple Orchard

Meg, Lindsey, Me, Alex, and Carly

I have really enjoyed the opportunity to be where the Prophet Joseph Smith grew up and to see how they lived. It gives me such gratitude for the lives they lived and the suffering they went through. It makes me much more grateful for what I have now in my life and how many comforts we have. It was a warm day  for just walking around and I could not imagine what it would be like to be working in the farm from day to day under such extreme heat and circumstances. We truly are blessed with the lives we have.  In taking a simple step back in time reminds me how fortunate I am.