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500 Little Known Facts in LDS (Mormon) History
Posted On 01/30/2008 11:54:59 by nymormon
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The Year Without a Summer (1816) The Smith family's move to Palmyra was prompted by a series of crop failures in Vermont - the last one in 1816. Known in New England as "the year without a summer," there was snow or freezing temperatures every month of that year. Now thought to have been caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815, this freakish weather was responsible for the Smith's move from Norwich, Vermont to Palmyra, New York. In fact there was such an exodus from Vermont in that year that it would be nearly a century before the state would recover from the loss. Thus, it was the eruption of a mountain thousands of miles away that led young Joseph to reside only three miles from another mount where Moroni hid up the plates. Proctor & Proctor, p. 91
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