Pioneer Windmill

A wind-driven machine for pumping water. Its use made gardening easier and led to irrigated farming on arid High Plains. With barbed wire, it enabled settlers and stockmen to penetrate region in 1870s.

Town had name “Windmill City” because of some ...

Eclipse Windmill Patented 1867

George Tyng, White Deer Lands, drilled first water well 1887 near present townsite White Deer after unsuccessful attempt in 1886 by Col. B. B. Groom, Francklyn Land & Cattle Company.

Windmill indispensable factor in settlement plains of Texas. Eclipse Mill slow ...

Windmill

The Garfield family' windmill towered 60 feet above its stone base. Lucretia had the original tower built in 1894 to overcome problems with an old polluted well and a gas engine water pump she had installed in 1885. The ...

Windmill House

ca. 1880

The original use of this building is unknown. It was used to manufacture a feed additive for hogs from 1908-1932, so that it is commonly referred to as the "Hog Powder House."

Marker is on 220th Trail.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Volendam Windmill

Authentic replica of wind-driven mill used for grinding grain into flour.

Marker is on Adamic Hill Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Solari Windmill

This reconstructed windmill was originally built in the 1890's on the George Solari family farm which was located near Whipple Avenue and Old County Road in Redwood City. When the area was subdivided in the 1930's, the windmill was moved ...

Windmill Point

During the War of 1812, the British blockaded the Chesapeake Bay and sent raiding vessels up the rivers and creeks to plunder and destroy property. The lookout at Windmill Point (about a mile east) on Fleet’s Island reported that on ...

Windmill

Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York

INTRODUCTION

In September 1609, Henry Hudson and some 20 seamen sailed their ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), into what is today New York harbor. The Dutch East India Company ...

Windmill Point

This plantation was homesite of Miles Cary, Sr. who came from England in 1645 at the age of 22. He was killed defending Old Point Comfort against the Dutch June 10, 1667. His grave nearby is said to be the ...

The Windmill

Water was pumped for the house by wind power. The windmill structure also offered a challenge to small gymnasts in the family who loved to clamber about it.

Marker can be reached from Sagamore Hill Road, on the right when traveling ...