Cumorah

Also known as Hill Cumorah, Mormon Hill

thumb|An 1841 engraving of Cumorah (looking south), where Joseph Smith said he was given golden plates by an angel named Moroni, on the west side, near the peak. Cumorah () is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he also said he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.

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Mountain.name: Cumorah
Mountain.photo: File:Hill-cumorah-crop.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption: Photograph of the hill by George Edward Anderson, 1907
Mountain.location: Manchester, Ontario County, New York, U.S.
Mountain.topo: USGS Clifton Springs
Mountain.map: New York Adirondack Park#USA
Mountain.map_caption: Location of Cumorah within New York

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Contents

New York
Supposed location of the plates
Book of Mormon
Nephites
Jaredites
Geography and historicity
New York hill
Cerro El Vigia
Alternative origin of the name
Alternate LDS archaeological view
Popular culture
Literary interpretation
Pageant
Notes
Works cited
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In the text of the Book of Mormon, "Cumorah" is a hill located in a land of the same name, which is "a land of many waters, rivers and fountains". In this hill, a Book of Mormon figure, Mormon, deposited a number of metal plates containing the record of his nation of Nephites, just prior to their final battle with the Lamanites in which at least 230,000 people were killed.