A Foundation

Within the last several months I've come to appreciate the usefulness and importance of blogs in our current society. Having been inspired by several blogs concerning history, I've decided to try my hand at it also. Since this is my first time, be aware that the posts may lack the brilliance that many others have, but allow me time to learn and grow. We all have to start somewhere.

This will be a blog focused on the Latter-day Saints and Southern History. There will be posts in which the two meet, and other posts which will be devoted to the two exclusively. There are also other blogs that touch these topics, and I'll have links to them in short order. This blog will tend to focus on Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, three of the Deep South states.

The name of this blog refers to one of the early Latter-day Saint congregations in Georgia, located near present-day Douglas. Missionaries first arrived there in the last years of the 1890s and by 1907, a church called "Cumorah" was built and provided a place for services for over fifty years. The "junction" part recognizes that railroad development in the South was an important factor in the spread of Mormonism throughout the South, just as it transformed southern society in many other ways.

So, there you have it. Hopefully this blog will aid you in exploring the history of the Latter-day Saints in the southern United States.