At the Joseph Smith Farm Welcome Center, visitors become acquainted with the
Smith family prior to 1816 when they arrived in the Palmyra area. From inside the
Center, large picture windows afford a look back into the past to a time when the
Smith family lived on the farm. The view extends from the log
home on historic Old Stafford Road to the full expanse of the
Sacred Grove. With thriving fruit orchards, meadows, and fields neatly
fenced and tended, the farm looks much as it would have appeared by 1830, complete
with a fine frame home, large barn and farmyard work
areas.
