Benson Grist Mill

Benson Grist Mill
Established1851 (original)
June 11, 1988 (museum restoration)
LocationStansbury Park, Utah
Typerestoration and replica museum
Visitors10,000 - 12,000 per year
DirectorJody Brunson
Websitehttp://www.bensonmill.org/

40°38′58″N 112°17′48″W / 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. 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.