Lehi Roller Mills
Lehi Roller Mills
Est. 1905
The June 2, 1905, Lehi Banner announced that Lehi was to have “a new flour mill with modern pattern and equipment” thanks to considerable effort by the Lehi Commercial Club, Lehi’s first booster organization. They chose a site on East Main Street as it was on the Lehi Sugar Factory spur of the Union Pacific Railroad. The first sack of flour was produced on April 2, 1906. By 1907, the company had changed its name to the Lehi Roller Mills.
In 1910, George G. Robinson purchased the mill and began an extensive modernization project. He installed a 43,000-bushel capacity grain elevator and four concrete silos. The Turkey Red and Peacock brand logos colorfully painted on the east side of the silos have been Lehi icons ever since.
After George's death in 1936, his sons, Sherman and Raymond, operated the mill. During World War Il, all flour milled was sold to the government for the war effort. R. Sherman Robinson, George's grandson, became the manager of the family-owned mill in 1980.
In 2013, Ken Brailsford, local entrepreneur, purchased the mill. In 2018, the mill was rebranded Lehi Mills. Lehi Roller Mills might be best known for serving as the backdrop for many scenes in Paramount's 1984 blockbuster movie, Footloose.
Lehi Roller Mills stands proudly around the turn of the 20th century.
Lehi Roller Mills stands almost alone before there were any traffic lights in Lehi.
Aerial of Lehi Roller Mills taken by Mitchell Garcia around 2015.
This image captures Lehi Roller Mills around the time the movie, Footloose, was filmed in the 1980s.
A shirt made from a Lehi Roller Mills Turkey Red flour sack.
Lehi Roller Mills appears without its silos in this photo taken around 1899.
Lehi Mills still sells the Turkey flour for which Lehi Roller Mills has always been known.
Footloose Movie Poster
A still image from the movie "Footloose". This dance seen was supposed to have taken place at the Mills.
833 E Main St Lehi, UT 84043
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