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Thank you and that is correct.
Here is another link between Racine and the Book of Mormon:
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2014/06/09/whered-you-get-this-book-bertha-payne-newell-and-the-book-of-mormon/
What is “the stake of Zion”?
http://www.strangite.org/Wisconsin.htm
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/miscnyc3.htm
“I must remark that whatever be the legitimate inference drawn from similar works and remains in other places, concerning the state of civilization attained by the Mound Builders, the evidence here [he had been exploring in the vicinity of Racine] goes to prove that they were an extremely barbarous people, in no respect superior to most of the savage tribes of modern Indians.” — Dr. P. R. Hoy: quoted by Lapham, 10.
A stake is a Mormon satellite city. The United Order of the Stake of Zion appears to be an attempt by Joseph Smith and other church elders in Kirtland to avoid paying their debts. They dissolved the original United Firm and established two orders, one of them being the United Order of the Stake of Zion.
They intended to pay their debts by going to Salem and breaking into a house they "thought was abandoned" and stealing "treasure", although it doesn't appear that they were able to identify the right house to break into.
Searching the term "Stake of Zion" brings me to this article about Doctrines and Covenants 111 (666?), which is interestingly about witchcraft and "ancient inhabitants", although the ancient inhabitants in this case appear to be puritans from Salem instead of truly ancient people like mound builders.
https://www.ldsstrangite.com/history.html