County: Lee
Location: The marker is located in Amboy,
mounted on the west side of the Track Side East Tavern (the
original Goldman's Hall), across from the old Illinois
Central Depot, on the east side of East Avenue, just north
of Main Street.
N 41o 42.833
W 089o 19.885
Erected: 06/15/1974 Erected by: Lee County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society
The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was established in 1852 in southern Wisconsin. On April 6, 1860, Joseph Smith II, son of the Morman 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 unitl death in 1914. Church Headquarters was founded at Plano, Illinois in 1866, moved to Lamoni, Iowa, in 1881 and to Independence, Missouri, in 1921.
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