Editing Ontario County, New York (section)

===Latter Day Saint movement===
[[File:Smith frame home 1.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Home of the [[Joseph Smith, Sr.]] family in Manchester, known as the "frame home".]]
{{See also|History of the Latter Day Saint movement}}

[[Joseph Smith]], founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], lived in [[Manchester (town), New York|Manchester]] in the 1820s on the border with [[Palmyra (town), New York|Palmyra]]. Several events in the early history of the movement occurred in Ontario County. [[Cumorah#New York|Hill Cumorah]] in Manchester is where Smith said he discovered the [[Golden plates]] said to contain the writings later known as the ''[[Book of Mormon]]''. Smith visited the hill each year on the [[Fall equinox (Northern Hemisphere)|fall equinox]] (September 22) between 1823 and 1827, and claimed to be instructed by the [[Angel Moroni]]. Smith said he was finally permitted to take the record on September 22, 1827. He published the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'' in Palmyra in 1830. The {{convert|110|ft|m|adj=on}} hill (which was then unnamed) is on the main road toward [[Canandaigua (city), New York|Canandaigua]] from Palmyra to [[Manchester, New York|Manchester]] (modern [[New York State Route 21|State Route 21]]); it was a few miles from Joseph Smith's home.

Since the 1930s [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] has held the [[Cumorah#Pageant|Hill Cumorah Pageant]] annually here. It regularly attracts thousands to its performances.<ref>{{cite news | title = A History Lesson | publisher = The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | date = July 8, 2001 }}</ref>  The church also maintains a visitors' center at the hill, the [[Palmyra New York Temple]], and the former Smith property and homes. The latter property straddles the border between Ontario and Wayne counties.