Joseph Fielding Smith also taught that Lehi Landed in Central America, John Taylor taught The Book of Mormon happened in Mesoamerica, Joseph Smith taught that The Book of Mormon happened in Mesoamerica towards the end of his life, and so did MANY more. Opinions varied all over on the location of BOM lands. The only known site is Cumorah, which some assumed to be the same hill mentioned in the BOM, although the BOM teaches that what was eventually known to be called "Cumorah" in North America (wasn't named by JS, but by either WW Phelps, or Oliver Cowdery years after the publication of the BOM), was different than the Cumorah mentioned in The Book of Mormon.
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