Mormon Historic Sites Foundation

Mormon Historic Sites Foundation

The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation (MHSF) is an independent organization that seeks to contribute to the memorialization of sites important to the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The organization also maintains a database of historic sites of the LDS Church called the Mormon Historic Sites Registry.[1]

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History

The foundation was originally started in 1992 as the Ensign Peak Foundation, involved in the creation of Ensign Peak Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. After the success of this project the organization changed to its current name and undertook a broader mission. Their next major project was the restoration of Kirtland, Ohio including the working towards the relocation of the main road so visitors would not have to compete with traffic in visiting the historic sites there.

The current title first appeared in the LDS Church News,[2] about the ceremony held in 1998 to remember the Haun's Mill Massacre, held jointly by the MHSF and the Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation.

Publications

The MHSF produces a semiannual scholarly publication called Mormon Historical Studies. It features "essays, biographies, documents, book reviews, historical site descriptions, indexes, and archival listings relevant to subjects of general interest to Latter-day Saints".[3]

Mormon Historical Studies was originally The Nauvoo Journal, until its name change in spring 2000. The Nauvoo Journal started with Lyman D. Platt and the Early Mormon Research Institute in 1989, intending to aid Mormon History "by bringing to light previously unknown and little used records, by correcting false research and traditions, by indexing of other difficult records, and by publishing many sources that are inaccessible to hundreds of interested family historians and genealogists".[4]

See also

  • Junius F. Wells - the "Junius F. Wells Award" is given to individuals who promote the purposes of the Foundation
  • Fred Woods - executive director
  • J Malan Heslop - president for at least part of the time it was known as the Ensign Peak Foundation
  • Historic Kirtland Village

Notes

  1. ^ "Welcome to the Mormon Historic Sites Registry!". Mormon Historic Sites Registry. Mormon Historic Sites Foundation. http://www.mormonhistoricsitesregistry.org/. Retrieved 2008-09-10. 
  2. ^ Baugh, Alexander L. (November 7, 1998). "Haun's Mill remembered". LDS Church News. 
  3. ^ "Publications", Mormon Historic Sites Foundation, accessed on 2008-03-26.
  4. ^ Platt, Lyman D. (1989), "Early Mormon Sources, 1830-1900", The Nauvoo Journal, Volume 1. Early Mormon Research Institute, pp. 4. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.

References

  • Stahle, Shaun D. (August 9, 2003). "Preserving history with aid of historic sites foundation". LDS Church News. 

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