Carthage

Today was our P Day so we had the whole day to do whatever we chose. So we drove the country roads past miles of cornfields to Carthage.  Don’t quite know how to describe the feelings and the spirit that the jail causes. Sad but sacred. Joseph Smith really comes alive in these places. Being there is different than reading about it. The church has made the grounds a beautiful peaceful place.   

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I loved this quote.

The window is the one Joseph fell out of. Dad and I are standing outside under the window.

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The stairs that the mob rushed up. 

The room where Joseph, Hyrum, John Taylor, and Willard Richards were. It is actually a bedroom of the jailer's family. He was kind to the prisoners and didn’t keep them in the jail cell. 

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The jail is the original building.

The door is the original one with the bullet hole that killed Hyrum.

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