Footnotes

1. [1]

   Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 25 June 1833; Plat of the City of Zion, ca. Early June–25 June 1833; Plan of the House of the Lord, between 1 and 25 June 1833; Letter from John Whitmer, 29 July 1833.

2. [2]

   Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 25 June 1833.

3. [3]

   See Plat of Kirtland, OH, not before 2 Aug. 1833. In some respects, the plat featured here is similar to the Kirtland plat drawn the same month. The revised plat for Zion is larger than the seven-by-seven block structure of Kirtland and has two central blocks with twenty-four temples instead of only one portion of a central block for three temple-style houses, but the block dimensions and the consecutive numbering of lots are the same. The numbering of the lots in Kirtland radiated out from the central block while the numbering on the revised plat for Zion began at the most northwestern block.

4. [4]

   Revised Plan of the House of the Lord, ca. 10 Aug.–ca. 4 Sept. 1833.

5. [5]

   Bushman, Believing History, 181–187.

   Bushman, Richard Lyman. Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays. Edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

6. [6]

   Although the explanation for the original plat called for fifteen acres to be in each of the blocks in the center row, the drawing of that plat showed sixteen acres in each of those blocks.

7. [7]

   See Hamilton, Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture, 17–19. The original plat and its explanation indicated that each lot would have only one house, or dwelling, per lot, suggesting that in many cases, multiple families would have to live in the same house. (Plat of the City of Zion, ca. Early June– 25 June 1833.)

   Hamilton, C. Mark. Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

8. [8]

   The revised plat was first drawn with a different arrangement but was corrected before the plat was sent to Missouri.

9. [9]

   Letter to Vienna Jaques, 4 Sept. 1833.

10. [10]

    See Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 18 Aug. 1833; Letter to Vienna Jaques, 4 Sept. 1833; “History of Orson Hyde,” 12, Historian’s Office, Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861, CHL; and Knight, History, 439.

    Historian’s Office. Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861. CHL. CR 100 93.

    Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.

11. [11]

    Proposal for Zion’s City Center from Edward Partridge, ca. Late Sept. 1833.

12. [12]

    See Historical Introduction to Letter, 30 Oct. 1833; Letter from William W. Phelps, 6–7 Nov. 1833; and Letter from Edward Partridge, between 14 and 19 Nov. 1833.