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A home, listing as " Historic Pugsley Manor House" is available for short-term rentals on Airbnb . "Manor" is an ex...

A few days ago I stepped off the ferry onto Ellis Island and walked up the path to the immigration building. I'd been there before, so...

My parents have been on a long road trip through Ontario, New York, Vermont, Maine, and I forget where else. They've enjoyed the scener...

Wikipedia said that the 123rd Volunteer Illinois Regiment was at the Battle of Stones River, and I didn't think to double check. ...

As the pioneers traveled west in 1848, Edwin S. Little and James Monroe Tanner died at Richardson's Point. The two pioneer graves had b...

This picture of Sidney Tanner is from the Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith photography collection at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City....

Sidney Tanner's wife Louisa Conlee Tanner died on September 29, 1846, at Winter Quarters. Sidney must have put off the grim task of...

The women who entered plural marriage generally did so out of a firm belief in the Restored Gospel and the prophetic ministry of the Prophe...

Here is Sidney Tanner writing to his brother-in-law, Apostle Amasa Lyman, as Sidney evacuated both their families from San Bernardino u...

Based on information in the Early Mormon Missionaries database, I have updated the list of Southern States Mission Presidents . Since...