English: Downtown, Amboy, Illinois. Historic site plaque concerning Mormons in Illinois, which reads:
MORMONS IN AMBOY
THE REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS WAS
ESTABLISHED IN 1852 IN SOUTHERN
WISCONSIN. ON APRIL 6, 1860, JOSEPH
SMITH III, SON OF THE MORMON FOUNDER,
WAS ORDAINED PRESIDENT-PROPHET OF THE
REORGANIZED CHURCH. THE CEREMONY
WAS HELD AT GOLDMAN'S HALL, WHICH
STOOD ON THIS SITE AT AMBOY. A MORMON
CONGREGATION HAD BEEN ORGANIZED
HERE ABOUT 1840. SMITH HEADED THE
REORGANIZED CHURCH UNTIL HIS DEATH
IN 1914. CHURCH HEADQUARTERS WAS
FOUNDED AT PLANO, ILLINOIS IN 1866,
MOVED TO LAMONI, IOWA, IN 1881, AND
TO INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI, IN 1921.
ERECTED BY THE LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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