ZCMI Co-Op Building

When Brigham Young launched Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution in 1868, it wasn't only the grand store in Salt Lake City — the cooperative idea spread to scores of towns, each with its own ZCMI branch owned by local shareholders. Lehi's was one of them. These community co-ops were a deliberate economic strategy: keep trade in Latter-day Saint hands, hold prices down, and blunt the outside merchants arriving with the railroad. This marker remembers Lehi's cooperative building, a small-town node in one of the largest networks of its kind in early America.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lehi Roller Mills — 0.3 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Thanksgiving Point — 5.2 mi
  A massive complex with dinosaur bones, gardens, and a curiosity museum
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 8.3 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels
• Alpine Loop Summit — 12 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos

More markers nearby

• Lehi Hotel — steps away
• Lehi Veterans Memorial Building — steps away
• Lehi City Hutchings Museum Veterans Memorial Foyer — steps away
• Lehi Memorial Building — steps away