After attending Church in Mountpelier, we went an hour South to Sharon, Vermont to visit the birthplace of Joseph Smith. They are a very nice visitors center there sitting on an 800 acre farm, where the family originally started (actually, it was the Mack's farm).
This obelisk is a single piece of granite, which from its base measures 38.5 feet (the age of Joseph Smith when he was killed. It is quite the construction feat, since it was installed in 1905 - 80 tons of rock, hauled by wagon from a quarry in Berre, Vermont which is 25 miles to the North.
The grounds around the monument are beautiful and sited on the farm is a ward building for the local congregation.
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