Pioneer Flour Mill

Pleasant Grove's first flour mill came from a family that built them everywhere. Archibald Gardner — one of the territory's most prolific millwrights — put up the town's first flour mill in 1872, then sold it in 1876 to David Adamson, who installed these grinding stones. A waterwheel turned them, backed by a steam engine when the creek ran low. The miller John Christian Nelson ground the valley's wheat into fine flour or coarse cattle feed, and ox teams hauled it off to neighboring counties. Albert Cooper bought and improved the mill in 1902.

What the plaque says

In 1872 Archibald Gardner built the first flour mill in Pleasant Grove which he sold, in 1876, to David Adamson who installed these grinding stones. They were run by waterwheel also a steam engine when water was low. Grain was ground into fine flour or course cattle feed by John Christian Nelson, miller, then sold and hauled to neighboring counties by ox teams. In 1902 Albert Cooper bought and improved the mill.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 5.6 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels
• Lehi Roller Mills — 6.2 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Alpine Loop Summit — 7.1 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos
• Aspen Grove — 7.6 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls

More markers nearby

• Pioneer Relic Hall — steps away
• Nelson Granary — steps away
• Pleasant Grove Town Hall — steps away
• In Commemoration of Utah's First Indian Battle — steps away