United Order Industries
On March 20, 1874, the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints organized a modern order
of Enoch, called the United Order. Israel Hoyt,
first president. A community dining hall with
bakery was constructed. Also a garden house
for seeds and tools. They built a carpenter,
blacksmith and shoe ship, tannery, gristmill,
sawmill, molassas mill, bucket factory, a woolen
and cotton factory, engaged in the silk industry,
dairying, broom and hat making. The people
planted farms, orchards and gardens, raised
sheep and cattle. The cooperative ended in 1886.
