List of windmills in Massachusetts
This is a list of traditional windmills in the American state of Massachusetts.
Locations[]
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.
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Barnstable | 1687 | ||||
Barnstable | 1785[1] | ||||
Beverly | Chipman's Tannery | Vertical axis mill | 1795[2] | ||
Bourne | Joe Jefferson's Mill[1] | Smock | 1889[3] | Moved within Bourne, 1971 | |
Bourne | Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Mill[1] | Smock | 1971 | Windmill World | |
Boston | Copp's Mill | 1632[4] | Standing 1659[5] | ||
Boston | Copp's Hill Mill | Smock | Moved to Salem, 1773[6] | ||
Boston | Windmill Point | 1636[7] | |||
Boston | Windmill Point (2nd mill) | 1650[8] | |||
Boston | Windmill Point (3rd mill) | 1650[9] | 1822[10] | ||
Boston | Windmill Point (4th mill) | 1650[11] | 1824[12] | ||
Boston | Windmill Point (5th mill?) | Tower | 1833[13] | ||
Boston | Widow Tuthill's Mill | 1642[14] | |||
Boston | South Mill | 1643[15] | 1644[16] | ||
Boston | Windmill Hill | 1636[17] | |||
Brewster | Ellis Landing Road Mill | Smock | 1795 | Moved within Brewster unknown date[18] | |
Brewster | Smock | 1845[19] | Moved within Brewster 1890[20] | ||
Brewster | Smock | 1890[21] | Moved within Brewster 1974[22] | ||
Brewster | Old Higgins Farm Mill 41°45′08″N 70°07′16″W / 41.75222°N 70.12111°W |
Smock | 1974[23] | Windmill World | |
Brewster | Golf course | Windmill World | |||
Brockton | 1781[24] | ||||
Brockton | West Falmouth Mill | Smock | 1922[25] | Burned down, unknown date[26] | |
Buzzards Bay | Beach House Mill | Smock | Windmill World | ||
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1853[27] | Moved within Cataumet 1850s[28] | |
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1850s[29] | Moved within Cataumet 1905[30] | |
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1905[31] | ||
Cataumet | Rothery Mill | Smock | 1900[32] | ||
Cataumet | Rothery Mill (2nd mill) | Smock | Early 1900s[33] | ||
Chatham Mill 41°40′34″N 69°57′33″W / 41.67611°N 69.95917°W |
1797 | Windmill World | |||
Chatham | Smock | 1820[34] | Moved within Chatham 1911[35] | ||
Chatham | Sur Mer Mill | Smock | 1911[36] | Windmill World | |
Chatham | Chatham Bars Inn Mill | Smock | c. 1730[37] | Moved to South Orleans 1830[38] | |
Chatham | Benjamin Godfrey Mill, Mill Hill | Smock | 1797[39] | Moved within Chatham 1956[40] | |
Chatham | Benjamin Godfrey Mill | Smock | 1956[41] | ||
Chatham | Dolphin Inn Mill[1] | Smock | 1980s[42] | ||
Chatham | Robert Horne Mill | Smock | 1920s[43] | ||
Chilmark | Elmer Bliss Mill | Smock | 1938 | ||
Dennis | Uncle Rufus Howes' Mill South Mill |
Late 18th century[44] | Demolished 1874[45] | ||
Dennis Port | Reuben Burgess Mill | Smock | Burned down unknown date, gone by 1885.[46] | ||
East Dennis | Hatsel Kelly Mill | 1775 | Struck by lightning and burnt down 1869.[47] | ||
Eastham | 1660[48] | ||||
Eastham | Kaskaogansett Mill | 1682[49] | |||
Eastham | Eastham Mill | Smock | 1793 | Moved within Eastham, 1808 | |
Eastham | Eastham Mill | Smock | 1808 | Windmill World | |
East Orleans | Old Mill | Smock | 1800[50] | Moved to Sandwich 1819[51] | |
Edgartown | Town Mill[52] | ||||
Edgartown | (three other mills)[53] | ||||
Fairhaven | Macomber Mill | Smock | 1821[54] | Moved to Cataumet 1853[55] | |
Falmouth | Old Emmon's Estate Mill | Windmill World | |||
Fall River | Smock | Moved from Warren, Rhode Island. Moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island at unknown date.[56] | |||
Fall River | smock | Moved from Bristol, Rhode Island. Moved to Tiverton, Rhode Island at unknown date.[57] | |||
Fall River | Littlefield Mill | Smock | 1815 | Moved to Block Island, Rhode Island, unknown date. Gone by 1877[58] | |
Harwichport | SW side of South St | Smock | 1792[59] | Moved to NE side of South St at unknown date[60] | |
Harwichport | NE side of South St | Smock | Moved to Wychmere Harbor 1890s[61] | ||
Harwichport | Wychmere Harbor (north site) | Smock | 1890s[62] | Moved within Wychmere Harbor 1900s[63] | |
Harwichport | Wychmere Harbour (south site) | Smock | 1900s[64] | Moved a short distance (50 feet (15 m)) early 1940s[65] | |
Harwichport | John Smith Mill | Smock | Early 1940s[66] | ||
Hyannisport | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1897 | Moved to Orleans 1983 Windmill World |
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Hyannisport | Landmark House Mill[1][2] | Smock | 1911[67] | ||
Hyannisport | Wright Mill[1] | Smock | c. 1900[68] | ||
Ipswich | Windmill Hill Mill | 1667[69] | |||
Marblehead | Rhodes Hill Mill | 1678[70] | 1681[71] | ||
Marblehead | Saltworks (two mills) | 1804[72] | One blown down October 1804 | ||
Marblehead | Goodwin Mill | 1819[73] | |||
Marstons Mills | Cape Cod Airfield Mill[1] | Smock | 1950s[74] | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1815[75] | Moved within Martha's Vineyard 1842 | |
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1842[76] | Moved with Martha's Vineyard 1888 | |
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1888[77] | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Timothy Chase Mill | 18th century[78] | Collapsed 1818[79] | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Tailer Mill | Post | 1985[80] | Moved to Etzikom, Alberta, Canada 1995.[3] | |
Nantucket | Frederick Macy Mill, Mill Hill | Post | 1723[81] | Demolished 7 December 1837[82] | |
Nantucket | Mill Hill (2nd mill) | Post | 1810[83] | ||
Nantucket | Mill Hill (3rd mill) | Post | 1810[84] | ||
Nantucket | Mill Hill (4th mill) | Post | 1810[85] | ||
Nantucket | The Old Mill | Smock | 1746[4] | Nantucket Historical Association | |
Newbury | 1703[86] | 1774[87] | |||
Newbury | Saltworks | c. 1784[88] | |||
Orleans | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1839[89] | Moved to Hyannisport 1897. Windmill World |
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Orleans | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1983 | Windmill World | |
Osterville | Le Petit Moulin[1] | Smock | 1950s[90] | ||
Osterville | Oyster Harbours Mill[1] | Smock | 1925[91] | ||
Plymouth | Plimoth Mill | Smock | 1680 | Moved to Truro, 1770 | |
Provincetown | Salt works (six mills)[92] | Windmill World | |||
Sagamore | Christmas Tree Shop Mill | Smock | 1983[93] | At the eastern base of the Sagamore Bridge and attached to the | |
Salem | near the burial ground | 1637[94] | |||
Salem | 1733[95] | 1771[96] | |||
Salem | East Street Bark Mill | 1794ref name=New/> | |||
Sandwich | Heritage Plantation Mill | Smock | Windmill World | ||
Sandwich | Old Mill | Smock | 1819[97] | Moved within Sandwich 1957[98] | |
Sandwich | Old Mill | Smock | 1957[99] | ||
South Chatham | Seth Bearse Mill | c. 1850[100] | |||
South Dartmouth | Chase Mill | Smock | 1924 | ||
South Dennis | Smock | 1791[5] | Moved to West Dennis | ||
South Orleans | Captain Arey's Mill | Smock | 1830[101] | Moved within South Orleans 1870[102] | |
South Orleans | Center Mill Captain Arey's Mill |
Smock | 1830[103] | Moved to Cataumet 1900[104] | |
South Orleans | East Mill[105] | ||||
South Orleans | Kenrick's Hill | Smock | Mid-18th century[106] | Moved to Orleans 1839[107] | |
South Yarmouth | Farris Mill | Smock | 1750s[108] | Moved to Indian Town 1782[109] | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1866[5] | Moved within South Yarmouth, 1875[110] | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1875[111] | Moved within South Yarmouth 1916[112] | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1916[113] | Moved to Yarmouth 1953[114] | |
Swansea | Potter's Mill | Standing 1931[115] | |||
Truro | near the Highland Light | 1711[116] | |||
Truro | Truro Mill | Smock | 1770 | Moved to Eastham, 1793 | |
Truro | Castle Hill Mill | Smock[6] | |||
Truro | Truro Highlands Mill | Smock | Early 19th century[117] | ||
Watertown | Moved to Boston 1632[118] | ||||
Wellfleet | David Baker Mill[119] | ||||
Wellfleet | Thomas Higgins Mill[120] | ||||
Wellfleet | Freeman's Mill[121] | ||||
Wellfleet | Samuel Chipman's Mill[122] | ||||
Wellfleet | Ryder Mill | Smock | 1838[123] | Moved within Wellfleet 1870[124] | |
Wellfleet | Morning Glory Mill | Smock | 1870[125] | ||
Wellfleet | Wellfleet Harbor[1] | 1978[126] | |||
West Dennis | Kelley's Pond Mill | Smock | Moved to South Yarmouth 1866[127] | ||
West Falmouth | Bowerman Mill | Smock | 1787[128] | Moved to Brockton, 1922[129] | |
West Harwich | Smock | Moved to Cataumet early 1900s[130] | |||
West Harwich | The Windmill House Mill[1] | Smock | 1920s[131] | ||
West Yarmouth | Farris Mill | Smock | 1782[132] | Moved to Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan 1935[133] | |
Yarmouth | Sautucket Mill | 1661[134] | |||
Yarmouth | c. 1687[135] | ||||
Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1953[136] | Windmill World | |
Yarmouth | 1766[137] | Moved to East Dennis 1775[138] | |||
unknown location (north side of Cape Cod) | Smock | Mid-17th century[139] | Moved to South Yarmouth 1750s |
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Mock Mill, never a working windmill
- ^ Originally a water tower
- ^ "European Windmill Alberta". Canada Photos. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
- ^ "#165 Old Mill in Nantucket (1746)". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ a b "Judah Baker Windmill". Historical Society of Yarmouth. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ "CASTLE HILL BARN NEEDS YOU!". Castlehill. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
Sources[]
- Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1.
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