Day 5

There was so much! i'm not sure I can remember it all.

The N. K. Whitney store was a very important place in Kirtland Ohio at the time. The next pictures are all within the store.

It was a post office as well as a store.

You know how you hear those phrases like, “He went the whole nine yards” and, “as dead as a door nail”…We learned where those two phrases came from while we were there. Fabric was imported in 9 yards, so when someone came in they’d say, “I want the whole 9 yards”.
Also, nails were very expensive in those days. So whenever a house would burn down, they’d gather up all the nails. They didn’t grab the nails in the door frame though, because they were bent when they were put in. When they put the nail in the door, they’d call it a dead nail because it could not be reused.

This was the N.K Whitney's workshop.

Joseph Smith received almost half of the revelations withing D&C at this actual table. It is the original.

The place where they had the school of the prophets.

Emma Smith's only place she could call her own while they lived here.

The kitchen that Emma used. The workers had to walk through there to take things down the the cellar.

Now we're out of the N. K. Whitney store. This was the place where N. K. Whitney and his wife lived. His wife wanted a yellow house because that was her favorite color, but at the time yellow was the most expensive color of paint because it was hard to make. Red was the least expensive (that's why barns were always red). Since the store was doing well, they could afford yellow.

After John Johnson sold his farm he opened up an Inn. This is a replaca of the Inn.

The saw mill was made to go extremely fast, but with little water traveling through.

Though you cant tell in the picture...The wheel looked almost as if it was being run by a motor, but there was only tiny bits of water going through at a time.

The ashery. For those of you who don't know, an ashery is where they make soap out of ashes. They paid local people for their ashes, so that was an easy way to get money for those in need. In fact, the area is covered in trees and during that time there were almost no trees because people would take them down and burn them for the ashes.