Smith Family Frame Home, Manchester (near Palmyra)

Online Resources at LDS.org

• D&C 2
• D&C 19:13–14, 23–24
• D&C 23:3.
• Joseph Smith—History 1:28–50

• "A Period of Preparation, 1823–29" – Church History in the Fulness of Times Student Manual (Church Educational System Manual, 2003), 37–51

Online Resources at BYU

• "Awakenings in the Burned-over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision" – 

  Study of the evidence of the revival atmosphere in and around Palmyra which inspired Joseph's prayer and vision.

   Milton V. Backman Jr., Brigham Young University Studies 9, no. 3 (1969): 301–20