Joseph Smith and Early Church History Museum

The Joseph Smith and early Church History Museum is free to the public and arranged and presented by Don and Ann Black

It is housed in an 1840 log cabin that was relocated from near Pittsfield, Pike County, Il. only a few miles from Mormon town.

Original Owners of the log cabin are:

  • U.S. to Alexander M Brurn Apr. 21, 1831
  • John Allison 1835
  • John Morton 1839
  • Huishik Morton 1839
  • John Morton and wife to Benjamin F. Stuart 1845
  • John J, Mudd and Henry Mudd 1847
  • Joseph Ricky ?
  • Joseph Dugdell 1852, recorded "upon which was a log cabin"

Log cabin donated by Paul Beck