Early Pioneer Mills

Before the water was piped and dammed, this canyon stream turned wheels. The Sons of Utah Pioneers count twenty-two mills that once stood along the creek they call Mill Stream — the Gardner, Neff, and Osguthorpe mills among them, built and run by Scottish, Welsh, and English converts who had the millwright's trade. The grinding stones worked the settlers' wheat as the isolated valley fed itself. Both the mills and the millers are gone now; this plaque, with its watermill verse, stands for the vanished machinery of a self-supplied frontier.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 3.1 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Emigration Canyon — 3.7 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 3.9 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 4.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Handcart Companies — steps away
• Charles Stillman Bridge — steps away
• B and K Tannery — steps away
• Kanyon Creek Mill — steps away