Grist Mill

Brigham City's first industrial building was also its fort. Frederick Kesler — the master architect of Utah's pioneer mills — raised this flouring mill in 1856 to anchor the northeast corner of a planned defensive wall, and armed guards once watched from its upper floors. Lorenzo Snow kept the mill personally, never folding it into his famous cooperative. The strangest turn came around 1890: John H. Bott, a stonecutter off the Salt Lake Temple, bought the mill and its whole block for three hundred dollars and turned the flour works into a monument shop, carving gravestones for generations.

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