Mormon Collection, Valentown Museum, Valentown Square, Fishers, N.Y. 14453, 1/2 mile north of Thruway Exit 45 off Route 96. Orientation for Mormon Tour free -- Museum tour 50 cents

The museum building, built in 1879 was the first shopping center in the U.S. and after 30 years use became a ghost town. Historian-archeologist J. Sheldon Fisher is restoring it as it was and includes the 300-year history of the region. The Town-Valentine family constructed buildings from 1811 to 1879. The Mormon collection contains Brigham Young's turning lathe, his chairs made on it, relics dug from his local combination house and mill site, and relics from other first Mormons.

A. Woolston-Fearnside house built in 1829 by Brigham Young at 262 Main Street fishers.

B. Fisher Homestead, 268 main street. Fishers have windows glazed by Brigham Young. Charles Fisher, Fishers founder bought craft work from young and attended same Mendon Baptist Church with Young and Kimball.

C. Home of Phineas Howe Young, first area Mormon convert in 1832 at 408 Main Street Fishers.

D. Historic Mendon village.

E. John Young farm home, father of Brigham, Phineas, Joseph, Lorenzo, Fanny and Rhoda, corner of Route 64 and Cheese Factory Road.

F. Site of Brigham Young's combination house and mill site 1/2 mile in rear of his father john’s house. Many baptized in Pond. Excavated material in Valentown Museum.

G. Front half of John Young's house moved across road.

H. Ira Bond house, corner of Semmel Road and Quaker Meeting House Road. First services by Missionaries in Honeoye Falls area.

I. Tomlinson's Inn, home of Nathan Tomlinson at Tomlinson's Corners, Route 64 and Boughton Hill Road. Mormon services held here.

J. Cemetery on Boughton Hill Road. Burial place of Miriam Young, Kimball, Parks, and Tomlinson families.

K. Solomon Kimball house, 1820, on north side of Boughton Hill Road near county line. Father of Heber and Charles, both noted Potters.

L. 406 Boughton Hill Road, rebuilt house on site of Roswell Murray home who married Fanny Young, whose daughter Vilate married Heber C. Kimball.

M. First Solomon Kimball farm in West Bloomfield in 1811. Three houses built by him.

N. Heber C. Kimball house and pottery site.

O. Israel Barlow's house site. Baptized by Brigham Young in his pond May 16, 1832.