Baron Woolen Mill / Brigham City Co-op Woolen Mill
Box Elder Co. | Utah | USA
Watersource: Box Elder Canal.
Baron Woolen Mill / Brigham City Co-op Woolen Mill
Located at 56 North 500 East, Brigham City, Utah. Turn east off Sh 13 onto E 100 S, then turn left on S 500 E. At E Forest St, the street becomes N 500 E. The woolen mill is halfway up the block on the right.
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Built in 1869-70 as a major home industry of the Brigham City Co-op, full production began in 1873. Seven looms and 200 spindles produced about $700.00 of cloth/week in the first year. the mill manufactured roughly a $1000.00 a week in 1877, until the mill burned in the end of October/first of Nov. It was immediately bebuilt the following year.
The woolen mill created two more cooperative businesses, a sheep herd for raw wool, and cotton farm near St. George, Utah for warp for weaving.GPS: 41' 30.68'N, 112 0.45'W ele. 4,469'/1,362 meters Brigham City Quadrangle
James Baron, an employee of the Co-op, continued the mill when the Co-op folded; and in 1889, vacated the mill and moved the business to Hyrum, Utah. It was destroyed by fire again when Anthony Jensen operated it in 1907. Baron's son, Thomas, and his two sons came back to Brigham City, rebuilt the woolen mill, and had a thriving enterprise by 1923. The Baron family sold the operating mill to Sherwood Hirshi in the summer of 1988. Hirshi declared bankruptcy on the Baron mill in 1992. Bob & Marva Sadler bought the mill in 1993 and continued to operate under the name of Baron Woolen Mill. Fire destroyed most of the woolen mill on Aug 27, 2008, then owned by the Bott family.