In the two decades since Joseph Smith’s first visions in the early 1820s in a small farm town in upstate New York, the Mormon Church had grown to over 25,000 followers. Announcing a vision and organizing believers in the New England of this era was not uncommon. In Maine, the visions of Ellen White launched Seventh-day Adventism. In New York, visions of Revelation inspired followers of Jemima Wilkinson to build a town called Jerusalem.
