Grist Mill

Brigham City's first industrial building was also its fort. Frederick Kesler, who designed many of Utah's pioneer mills, raised this flouring mill in 1856 at the northeast corner of a planned defensive wall, and armed guards watched from its upper floors. Lorenzo Snow kept the mill personally, outside his cooperative. Around 1890 John H. Bott, a stonecutter off the Salt Lake Temple, bought it for three hundred dollars and made the flour works a monument shop. Fire took it on August 26, 2008; the city's printed tour sign still hung on the burned shell in 2013.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wellsville Mountains — 8.7 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

• Historic Brigham City Relief Society Granary — steps away
• Woolen Mill - Built 1870 — 0.2 mi
• Box Elder Academy of Music and Dancing — 0.4 mi
• Planing Mill - Built 1875 — 0.4 mi