Log Cabin Grist Mill

During the winter of 1850-51, Arza and Sabina Adams moved their family of seven children here from Mill Creek, Salt Lake Valley, and built a log cabin across the street east of this site. Arza built a grist mill near the cabin after learning to build and operate flour mills from his father, Capt. Joshua Adams, in Ontario, Canada. The Adams Flour Mill was the first to produce baking flour for American Fork families. In 1853, Arza moved the water wheel, mill stones, and other workings four and a half blocks north and built a larger mill near the Lake City Fort. During his lifetime, he also built and operated a third flour mill one mile north of town. No photographs exist of the original 1851 mill. Arza Adams built the existing log cabin at 243 North 100 East, American Fork, in 1880, and it became the home of his daughter, Bets Adams Robinson. The cabin was taken down log by log in 2012 and reassembled on this site in 2014. The water wheel is a replica of a wheel built in the mid 1800s. This property originally belonged to Stephen Chipman, Arza’s maternal uncle. Arza Adams was a pioneer miller and one of the co-founders of American Fork.

American Fork, Utah · United States