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George A. Smith

  • 'Utah's Dixie' is site for annual Mormon History Association conference

    They call this area Utah's Dixie, and for more reasons than the fact that it is as far south as you can get in the Beehive State before crossing over into Arizona.
  • Tabernacle was built as St. George sprang up

    It seemed at first an unlikely locale for a tabernacle. But as early as 1862 — a year after St. George was settled — Brigham Young directed Latter-day Saints in St. George to construct the edifice, "a building designed not only for Church services but that would also serve as a cultural and social center for the entire community," said Michael N. Landon, an archivist in the Libraries Division of the Church History Library, at his May 27 presentation for the Mormon History Association Conference in St. George.
  • St. George Utah Temple

    St. George Utah Temple
  • Length of service: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve

    Length of service.