List of windmills in the United States
This is a list of traditional windmills in the United States.
Locations[]
Arizona[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prescott | Iron Turbine mill 34°32′30″N 112°28′27″W / 34.54167°N 112.47417°W |
Iron windpump | 1876 |
California[]
San Francisco | Murphy Windmill | Smock | 1905 | Appeared in the film A Jitney Elopement starring Charlie Chaplin Windmill World |
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San Francisco | Dutch Windmill | Tower | 1902 | Windmill World | |
Solvang | Smock |
Florida[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Miami Beach | Carl Fisher Casino | Tower | 1920[1] | 1926[1] |
Illinois[]
Indiana[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kendalville | Robertson Mill | Post | 2000[2] | Replica of Robertson Mill, Williamsburg, Virginia[2] |
Iowa[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elk Horn | Danish Mill | Smock | 1976[3] | Built in 1848 at Nørre-Snede, Denmark. Dismantled 1975 and re-erected at Elk Horn in 1976.[3] | |
Pella | Vermeer Mill | Smock | 2002[4] |
Kansas[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reamsville | Smock | 1879[5] | Moved to Smith Center, 1938[5] | ||
Smith Center | Old Dutch Mill 39°46.85′N 98°47.04′W / 39.78083°N 98.78400°W |
Smock | 1938[5] | ||
Wamego | Old Dutch Mill 39°12′13″N 96°18′08″W / 39.20361°N 96.30222°W |
Tower | 1925[6] | ||
near Wamego (12 miles (19 km) north of town) | Tower | 1879[6] | Dismantled 1925 and re-erected at Wamego.[6] |
Maine[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anson | Bailey Farm mill 44°51′45″N 69°55′49″W / 44.86250°N 69.93028°W |
1905 | |||
Castine | Hatch's Mill | c1800[7] | 1815[7] |
Massachusetts[]
Michigan[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dearborn | Greenfield Mill | Smock | 1660 in Massachusetts | Windmill World | |
Holland | De Zwaan | Smock | 1761 in the Netherlands |
Minnesota[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mankato | Seppman Mill 44°09′44″N 94°06′08″W / 44.162188°N 94.102180°W |
Tower | 1864 | Located in Minneopa State Park |
Missouri[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Louis | Bevo Mill | Smock |
New Jersey[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Holland Township | Volendam Mill 40°35′48″N 75°09′50″W / 40.5966°N 75.1639°W |
Smock |
New Mexico[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Moriarty | Eclipse mill 34°59′48″N 106°04′55″W / 34.99667°N 106.08194°W |
1890 |
New York[]
Rhode Island[]
South Carolina[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marsh Island | 1789 | Demolished 1852.[8] |
South Dakota[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Milbank | Holland Grist Windmill 45°13′18″N 96°37′10″W / 45.22167°N 96.61944°W |
Smock mill | 1882 | Windmill World |
Tennessee[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Georgetown | McKenzie mill 35°21′23″N 84°54′55″W / 35.35639°N 84.91528°W |
Iron windpump | 1931 |
Texas[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sheffield | Canon Ranch mill 30°44′44″N 101°58′30″W / 30.74556°N 101.97500°W |
Iron windpump | 1898 | ||
Victoria | Victoria Mill 28°48′04″N 97°00′05″W / 28.80111°N 97.00139°W |
Smock | 1870 |
Vermont[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alburgh | Tower | c1731[7] | Standing 1749[7] |
Virginia[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flowerdew Hundred | Flowerdew Hundred Mill | 1612[9] | |||
Flowerdew Hundred | Flowerdew Hundred Mill | Post | 1978[10] | ||
Williamsburg | Robertson Mill | Post | 1621[11] | Standing in 1723.[11] | |
Williamsburg | Robertson Mill[10] | Post | |||
Yorktown | Buckner′s Mill | Smock | 1711 [12] | Destroyed by tornado in late 19th century | |
Yorktown | Akers′ Mill | Smock | 2011 [13] | Reconstruction of William Buckner′s Mill near original site |
Washington[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spokane | Cambern Mill 47°38′43″N 117°23′20″W / 47.64528°N 117.38889°W |
1929 |
Wisconsin[]
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Superior | Davidson Mill 46°38′56″N 91°54′21″W / 46.64889°N 91.90583°W |
Smock | 1900[14] | Eight sails[14] | |
Little Chute | Little Chute Windmill 44°17′3″N 88°18′49″W / 44.28417°N 88.31361°W |
Smock | Constructed by Verbij Hoogmade BV[citation needed] | ||
Waupun | 44°17′3″N 88°18′49″W / 44.28417°N 88.31361°W |
Smock |
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[]
Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Carl Fisher casino, Miami Beach, Florida". Windmill World. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Robertson Post Windmill". Mid-America Windmill Museum. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Windmill History". The Danish Windmill. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ "Vermeer Mill & Interpretive Center". Pella Historical Village. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Old Dutch Mill". Ohio Barns. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Old Dutch Mill". Ohio Barns. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ "Museum around the Corner: Marsh Island". South Strand News. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "ABRAHAM PEIRSEY of JAMESTOWNE, VIRGINIA". Paul E. Pennebaker. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Windmills of Virginia". Windmill World. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Davidson Windmill". Waymarking. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
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