List of windmills in the United States
This is a list of "traditional" windmills in the United States, which usually are gristmills.
In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer[1]). And it is also used by many to refer to modern wind turbines generating electricity.
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A windmill, in Texas
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A wind pump in Texas
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A wind turbine in Texas
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A wind engine applied unusually, to power a plow, in Texas
This list aims to include only traditional-type windmills, with the exception that it also includes NRHP-listed historic windpumps known as windmills, such as the "Iron Turbine Windmill" in Arizona.
Windmills having coordinates below may be seen together in a map: click on "Map all coordinates using OpenSourceMap" at right of this page.
Arizona
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Iron Turbine mill | Prescott 34°32′30″N 112°28′27″W / 34.54167°N 112.47417°W |
Iron windpump | 1876 |
California
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Murphy Windmill | San Francisco | Smock | 1905 | Appeared in the film A Jitney Elopement starring Charlie Chaplin Windmill World |
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Dutch Windmill | San Francisco | Tower | 1902 | Windmill World | |
Solvang | Smock |
Florida
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Windmill | Carl Fisher Casino, Miami Beach | Tower | 1920[2] | 1926[2] |
Illinois
Indiana
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Robertson Mill | Kendalville | Post | 2000[3] | Replica of Robertson Mill, Williamsburg, Virginia[3] |
Iowa
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Danish Mill | Elk Horn 41°35′22″N 95°03′37″W / 41.58957°N 95.060371°W |
Smock | 1976[4] | Built in 1848 at Nørre-Snede, Denmark. Dismantled 1975 and re-erected at Elk Horn in 1976.[4] | |
Vermeer Mill | Pella Historical Village, Pella 41°24′23″N 92°54′52″W / 41.40649°N 92.91446°W |
Smock | 2002[5] |
Kansas
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Windmill | Reamsville | Smock | 1879[6] | Moved to Smith Center, 1938[6] | |
Old Dutch Mill | Smith Center 39°46.85′N 98°47.04′W / 39.78083°N 98.78400°W |
Smock | 1938[6] | ||
Old Dutch Mill | Wamego 39°12′13″N 96°18′08″W / 39.20361°N 96.30222°W |
Tower | 1925[7] | ||
Windmill | near Wamego (12 miles (19 km) north of town) | Tower | 1879[7] | Dismantled 1925 and re-erected at Wamego.[7] |
Maine
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Bailey Farm mill | Anson 44°51′45″N 69°55′49″W / 44.86250°N 69.93028°W |
1905 | |||
Hatch's Mill | Castine | c1800[8] 1815[8] |
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Windmill at 12 Madockawando Rd. | 12 Madockawando Rd., Castine 44°23′01″N 68°48′38″W / 44.38355°N 68.81064°W |
"antique windmill folly was built as a piano studio over a century ago"[9] |
Massachusetts
Michigan
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Greenfield Mill | Dearborn | Smock | 1660 in Massachusetts | Windmill World | |
Hickory Corners | Smock | 1927 | Moved here from Heeg, Friesland, Netherlands.[10] | ||
De Zwaan | Holland | Smock | 1761 in the Netherlands |
Minnesota
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Seppman Mill | Minneopa State Park, Mankato 44°09′44″N 94°06′08″W / 44.162188°N 94.102180°W |
Tower | 1864 |
Missouri
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Bevo Mill | St. Louis 38°34′54″N 90°16′01″W / 38.58174°N 90.26697°W |
Smock |
New Jersey
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Volendam Mill | Holland Township 40°35′48″N 75°09′50″W / 40.5966°N 75.1639°W |
Smock | 1965 | ||
Great Western Mill]] | Paulus Hook, New Jersey 40°43′00″N 74°02′01″W / 40.71659°N 74.03348°W |
Smock | 1806 | Edge's father shipped it to him from England. Built in Brooklyn Heights, moved to Paulus Hook 1812, moved to Southold 1839, Burnt 1870 | ]] |
New Mexico
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Eclipse mill | Moriarty 34°59′48″N 106°04′55″W / 34.99667°N 106.08194°W |
1890 |
New York
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Windmill | Marsh Island | 1789 | Demolished 1852.[11] |
South Dakota
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Image | |
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Holland Grist Windmill | Milbank 45°13′18″N 96°37′10″W / 45.22167°N 96.61944°W |
Smock mill | 1882 | Windmill World |
Tennessee
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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McKenzie Windmill | Georgetown 35°21′23″N 84°54′55″W / 35.35639°N 84.91528°W |
Iron windpump | 1931 |
Texas
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill | Sheffield 30°44′44″N 101°58′30″W / 30.74556°N 101.97500°W |
Iron windpump | 1898 | ||
Victoria Grist Windmill | Victoria 28°48′04″N 97°00′05″W / 28.80111°N 97.00139°W |
Smock | 1870 |
Vermont
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Windmill | Alburgh | Tower | c1731[8] | Standing 1749[8] |
Virginia
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Flowerdew Hundred Mill | Flowerdew Hundred | 1612[12] | |||
Flowerdew Hundred Mill | Flowerdew Hundred | Post | 1978[13] | ||
Robertson Mill | Williamsburg | Post | 1621[14] | Standing in 1723.[14] | |
Robertson Mill | Williamsburg | Post | [13] | ||
Buckner's Mill | Yorktown | Smock | 1711 [15] | Destroyed by tornado in late 19th century | |
Akers′ Mill | Yorktown | Smock | 2011 [16] | Reconstruction of William Buckner's Mill near original site |
Washington
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Cambern Mill | Spokane 47°38′43″N 117°23′20″W / 47.64528°N 117.38889°W |
1929 |
Wisconsin
Windmill | Location | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Davidson Windmill | Superior 46°38′56″N 91°54′21″W / 46.64889°N 91.90583°W |
Smock | 1900[17] | Eight sails[17] | |
Little Chute Windmill | Little Chute 44°17′3″N 88°18′49″W / 44.28417°N 88.31361°W |
Smock | Constructed by Verbij Hoogmade BV[citation needed] | ||
Waupun Dutch Windmill | Waupun 44°17′3″N 88°18′49″W / 44.28417°N 88.31361°W |
Smock | |||
Pilgrim Family Farmstead | |||||
Windmill at Robert M. Lamp Cottage | Lake Mendota, Madison | Windmill built 1902–03 to bring water to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage on an island in Lake Mendota. | |||
Romeo and Juliet Windmill |
Insular Areas
Puerto Rico
Windmill | Type | Built | Notes | Image | |
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Ingenio Azucarero Vives[18] | Guayama 17°58′45″N 66°7′3″W / 17.97917°N 66.11750°W |
Tower | 1828 | Spanish colonial sugar mill |
US Virgin Islands
Windmill | Type | Built | Notes | Image |
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Estate La Reine | ||||
Estate Mount Victory |
See also
Notes
Known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sources
- Pulling, Anne Frances; Leeds, Gerald A. (1999). Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-0288-X.
- Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1.
- Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.
References
- ^ "A History We're Proud Of: Aermotor Windmill Company". Retrieved March 10, 2023.
- ^ a b "Carl Fisher casino, Miami Beach, Florida". Windmill World. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b "Robertson Post Windmill". Mid-America Windmill Museum. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b "Windmill History". The Danish Windmill. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ "Vermeer Mill & Interpretive Center". Pella Historical Village. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b c "Old Dutch Mill". Ohio Barns. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b c "Old Dutch Mill". Ohio Barns. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1.
- ^ "Maine Listings: 12 Madocakawando Rd". Retrieved March 10, 2023.
- ^ "Heeg/ Heech, Fryslân, Fryslân". Amsterdam: De Hollandsche Molens. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ "Museum around the Corner: Marsh Island". South Strand News. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "ABRAHAM PEIRSEY of JAMESTOWNE, VIRGINIA". Paul E. Pennebaker. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b "Windmills of Virginia". Windmill World. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ a b "The Miller and the Windmill". Colonial Williamsburg. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Walt Akers. "Historic References to the Yorktown Windmill". Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ "Yorktown Windmill Project". Twisted Oaks Foundation. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ a b "Davidson Windmill". Waymarking. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ Antonio E. Colberg (1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ingenio Azucarero Vives / Hacienda Vives". National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-04. with ten photos from 1976
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