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Benson Grist Mill
Restoration and replica museum in Stansbury Park, Utah / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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40.649387°N 112.296753°W / 40.649387; -112.296753 Benson Grist Mill is a restoration-replica museum located in Tooele County, Utah in the western United States, which allows visitors to see the inner workings of a latter-nineteenth-century pioneer gristmill.[2] It has four other historic (nineteenth-century) buildings which have been moved onto the site, as well as four ancillary structures, including an open-air pavilion. It covers 6.98 acres (2.82 hectare) along State Highway 138, 0.8 mile southwest of the intersection of the Road with State Highway 36 (known as Mills Junction). The museum is owned and operated by a division of Tooele County.[3]
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Established | 1851 (original) June 11, 1988 (museum restoration) |
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Location | Stansbury Park, Utah |
Type | restoration and replica museum |
Visitors | 10,000 - 12,000 per year[1] |
Director | Jody Brunson |
Website | http://www.bensonmill.org/ |