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Joseph Smith was lead to the hill near his home by the angel Moroni, who showed him where the plates were buried. The hill did not have a name at the time. Mormons call the hill Cumorah, because the Book of Mormon says that the plates were buried by Moroni in the hill Cumorah. Non-Mormons often call the hill "Mormon Hill" or "Gold Bible Hill".

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Joseph Smith claims he was showed the place by an angel. They were buried in a sort of stone box under a rock in a hill near his house in upstate New York. The hill is now called the Hill Cumorah. You can see a painting of what his finding the plates may have looked like at the "Related Links" below.

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Who translated plates into a book and his follower birgham young led the members to the Utah?

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What is the Mormon religion based on?

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