Brigham City Co-op Store

This was the last thing the Brigham City Co-op ever built. Lorenzo Snow's cooperative had spent two decades making the town nearly self-sufficient, and its mercantile store was meant to crown the enterprise. It didn't. Three years after the doors opened, fire broke out, and the losses proved too heavy to carry — the store's business folded a year before the cooperative itself finally wound down. The building outlived them both: First Security Bank bought it in 1942, and it stood on as a bank where a communal experiment had once kept a whole town's accounts.

What the plaque says

The mercantile store was the last building constructed for the Brigham City Co-op. Three years after the store opened, a fire broke out. Financial losses from the fire shut down the business a year before the cooperative organization closed. First Security Bank bought the building on July 1942

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wellsville Mountains — 9.1 mi
  The steepest mountains in North America for their height
• Hyrum State Park — 12 mi
  A family-friendly reservoir at the mouth of Blacksmith Fork Canyon
• Powder Mountain — 15 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Logan — 18 mi
  A vibrant college town tucked into a stunning mountain valley

More markers nearby

• Brigham City Fire Station — steps away
• Brigham City, a Co-op Town — steps away
• A Pioneer Home — steps away
• Brigham City Tabernacle — 0.4 mi