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Mystery Mill Stones

03 Saturday May 2025

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I’m hoping the collective knowledge of the internet can help with this, I had a lady call me up about these mill stones in her back yard – two are complete and I dug into this pile of stones near the fence and started finding pieces of others. She’s wondering where they might have come from. One person told her they came from somewhere in Utah named after a President, maybe Fillmore. She in a home built in 1960 in Sandy, Utah and the stones along with the stone work all over the house is from the original owner who already gave away some of the millstones.

Daniel Burch Millstone

11 Saturday Feb 2023

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This millstone is from a mill built by Daniel Burch in 1852, on the east side of the Weber River in Riverdale. In 1858 the mill was purchased by Pres. John Taylor of the LDS Church. Each stone burr weighed one ton. They were in use until 1896. The mill later became All-O-Wheat Mill, which was demolished in 1997.

This is located outside the Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum at 2104 Lincoln Avenue in Ogden, Utah.

Mill Stone

22 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Located in Pioneer Park in Ephraim, Utah, this mill stone is on display with a sign that says:

There used to be a burr mill called the Climax Mill in southeast Ephraim across the creek from Guards Knoll. It was called a burr mill because of the Burr Stones which were used to grind flour. These stones were a very special, hard type of stone found only in Buhr, France.
These stones were made in many sizes usually ranging from 12 to 48 inches. This mill stone (a.k.a. burr stone) came from the yard of the Hermansen home that was located on the corner of 100 North and 100 East in Ephraim. That is where the Ephraim College Student Stake Center now stands.