These are the facts:
- It’s a fact that Joseph identified the hill in Palmyra as “Cumorah”
- It’s a fact Joseph directed, and Oliver edited an Official Church History, which placed the final battle at the Cumorah in Palmyra
- Omer, a Jaredite, traveled past “where the Nephites were destroyed,” thus Lake Ontario IS the Sea North
- It’s a fact that a Nephite angel told David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, and Joseph that Cumorah was in Palmyra
- It’s a fact that the Book of Mormon prophesied it would come forth ON Book of Mormon lands
- It’s a fact that Jesus said the Book of Mormon would come forth on the same land where he preached anciently
Details are under Cumorah and Spiritual Geography on the Main Menu.