Gardner's Saw Mill

Robert Gardner and his sons, Archibald, Robert, and William, erected a saw mill on Warm Springs Stream in Salt Lake City in October, 1847, where three boards were sawed. The mill was moved to this site in 1848 and produced the first commercial lumber in Utah under the first formal grant of water for industrial use. Later, a flour mill was erected a few rods upstream, and these plants gave the name Millcreek to the stream and canyon. Gardner's Fort, home of the Gardner families, stood a short distance northeast, and the Gardners received the first permit to leave the pioneer fort.

Millcreek, Utah · United States