Planing Mill - Built 1875

The Brigham City Co-op built more than cloth and flour — it built the town's furniture. James Pett raised the planing mill in 1875, when the cooperative ran twenty-nine departments, and its machines turned out cabinetry, furniture, and square nails for a community assembling itself. When the co-op unraveled, one of its own workers, John Finley Merrell, bought the mill in 1892 and made it Merrell's Lumber Company — a family firm his sons and grandsons carried to 1983. The mill reached the National Register in 1990, though the building itself is gone now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wellsville Mountains — 9.0 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

• Woolen Mill - Built 1870 — steps away
• Historic Brigham City Relief Society Granary — 0.2 mi
• Grist Mill — 0.4 mi
• Brigham City Fire Station — 0.5 mi