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3 unusual facts about Kinderhook plates


Kinderhook plates

The Kinderhook plates were a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with strange engravings which were claimed to have been discovered in 1843 in an Indian mound near Kinderhook, Illinois.

On April 16, 1843, Robert Wiley, a merchant living in Kinderhook, began to dig a deep shaft in the center of an Indian mound near the village.

Smith cited the Kinderhook plates in a map he drew of Moroni's journey to the hill Cumorah.



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