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Book of Mormon Print Shop August 28, 2009

Posted by Emily in : Church, Daily Life , 3comments

Some of you may recall that we live on the second floor of this building.

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We are just here for a few more weeks, then it’s back to Kansas City where we hope our neighbors remember us.  Hannah talks about her “friends” all the time, so PLEASE remember us when we return!

In the mean time, Hannah has been very busy making lots of new friends, which means I practically know every vendor and neighbor on our street.

We live two doors down from the Book of Mormon Historic Publication site and David  finally had some time off to tour it with us this last weekend.

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The Book of Mormon was first published here.  (Just like the sign says:))

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The type setting and printing was done upstairs in this room.

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The ink spattered in this wall is the original ink from the 1830′s.

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This is the main floor of the print shop where the first 5000 original copies of the Book of Mormon were sold.

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At that time, the book sold for $1.25 which was about two days worth of labor.

It is so neat to see this little town first hand where the church was established.