Millrace

Before there was a millrace there was just a ditch, and before the ditch there was thirst. In 1855, on Brigham Young's counsel, Joseph Harker and the brothers John and Samuel Bennion hand-dug a channel from a rock dam on the Jordan to carry water north onto the dry farmland west of the river — the difference, out here, between a crop and nothing. Decades later, when a grist mill tapped the same channel for power, the ditch earned the name it still carries: Millrace. The park that holds this marker keeps it too.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 4.6 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 6.7 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 6.7 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Temple Square — 8.2 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Taylorsville/ Bennion Pioneers — 0.7 mi
• 1900 Baptismal Site — 0.8 mi
• Archibalt Gardner Mill — 1.2 mi
• English Fort — 1.3 mi