Nephi in Juab County, Utah — The American Mountains (Southwest)
The Old Mill Wheel
This wheel is the third and last wheel used at the millsite. A wooden flume or millrace, raised 16 feet high on stilts, carried water from Salt Creek at a place between Third and Fourth East. The force of the flow turned the wheel which powered the whole mill. During the 1920s, the Juab Mill and Elevator Company bought the Nephi Mill and Manufacturing Company located at First North and Second West. From the time on, flour was milled at the Nephi Mill and Manufacturing Company, and the Old Mill operated as a feed mill, manufacturing poultry feed and chopping and grinding grain.
Activities came to an end at the original site in 1949 when both mills were sold.
Erected 1966 by Juab Company, Daughters of Utah Pioneers. (Marker Number 499.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker series.
Location. 39° 42.456′ N, 111° 50.135′ W. Marker is in Nephi, Utah, in Juab County. Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and 100 South Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street. Click for map. Marker is in city park on northeast corner. Marker is in this post office area: Nephi UT 84648, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Juab Co. Jail (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Oscar M. Booth House (approx. 0.4 miles away); Early Schools (approx. 0.6 miles away); Salt Creek Fort (approx. 0.6 miles away); Burraston Ponds (approx. 6.2 miles away); Salt Creek Canyon Massacre (approx. 6.9 miles away); Mona Bicentennial Memorial Park (approx. 7.6 miles away); Old Pioneer Cemetery (approx. 7.9 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Nephi.
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