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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.
See List of windmills in the Netherlands; Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.
Windmill World: East Orleans: Old Mill Smock: 1800: Moved to Sandwich 1819: Edgartown: Town Mill: Edgartown (three other mills) Fairhaven: Macomber Mill Smock: 1821: Moved to Cataumet 1853: Falmouth: Old Emmon's Estate Mill: Windmill World: Fall River: Smock: Moved from Warren, Rhode Island. Moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island at unknown date ...
Windmill Location Type Built Notes Photograph Heidemann Mill Old Mill Addison: Smock: 1868 [1] Burnt down 1958 [1] Siedhoff Mill Old Dutch Mill Barrington Roller Flour Mill Barrington: 1867 [2] Burnt down 5 August 1884 [2] Depner Mill [3] Beecher: Franzen Mill Old Flax Mill Bensenville: 1850 [4] Schmidt Brothers Mill Benson Mill Benson: Smock ...
Windmill Newport 1663: Blown down 1675: Quaker Hill Mill: Portsmouth: Smock: Moved within Portsmouth c. 1876: Lehigh Hill Mill: Portsmouth Smock: c. 1876: Moved to Middletown 1970: John Peterson's Mill: Portsmouth Smock: 1810: Dismantled 1995, rebuilt at Middletown 2001. Windmill Tiverton: Smock: Moved to Newport at unknown date. Windmill Warren
2. Bowerie Windmill, Nieuw Amsterdam (1663): Erected in 1663, the Bowerie Windmill was on the farm of Gov Peter Stuyvesant in Nieuw Amsterdam, (Todays Bowery St.) The trail led outside the ‘Wall’ past farmland. When the English took NY from the Dutch, they decided to let the then 2 yr old windmill continue operating. 3.
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Still retaining its internal machinery, this windmill is unusual for Long Island, in that it has a fantail to turn the sails into the wind. The Hayground Windmill, in 1984, was one of eleven surviving 18th and early 19th century wind-powered gristmills on Long Island. [3] It was also the busiest, turning out more bushels than nearby windmills.