Lamoni History Tour, Continued
RLDS Church Headquarters at Lamoni, Iowa, 1880s
President Joseph Smith III; Assistant Herald Editor Richard S. Salyards; Presiding Patriarch Alexander Hale Smith; seated in Joseph III's office in the Herald Building, Lamoni, Iowa, ca. 1900
General Church Offices were centralized at Lamoni in 1881.
Lamoni Train Station at RLDS Conference, 1890s
Consequently, the town of Lamoni hosted many church related visitors at regular RLDS General Conferences.
Compositors at work in the Herald Publishing Building, ca. 1900
Herald House's publishing activities became an important source of business for the community. The church-owned Herald Publishing House also provided office space for church leadership. Herald House produced a variety of church publications and literature, provided employment, as well as, generated steam power for the community.
Herald Office Building workers, ca 1890.
Herald Building Fire, 1907
On the morning of 5 January 1907, an alarm sounded throughout the town as the
publishing plant was destroyed by fire. The building also served as church offices,
so many valuable church materials were lost as well. President Joseph Smith III had
recently moved to Independence, Missouri, in 1906. Rather than allowing the fire to
force the removal of printing operations to Independence, Missouri, determined
townsfolk quickly raised the needed money and built a replacement printing facility.
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