JASPER, Minn. — The winds of history can be found in Pipestone County. "I come from 'Chicagoland' where they say it's the Windy City. No, this is windy," Trinidad Garcia said. Even on a day with ...
In the early 1900s, San Francisco built Dutch-style windmills to pump water for its parks and gardens. Over a century later, ...
It creaked in the prairie wind, a comforting sound that all was well. Its Aeromotor fin, high above the barnyard, caught the wind that brought water to the farm — water for the stock, water for the ...
Regarding the letters of May 25 on rural wind power: Rural America used wind before electricity was available. Most farms had a windmill. They pumped water from the well into a tank for home use. Here ...
HOLLAND (AP) - A worker has found rotted beams during renovation work on the 250-year-old DeZwaan windmill at Windmill Island Gardens, making it likely that more repairs will be needed sooner than ...
Windmills have been a great topic of discussion around New Jersey in recent years, but recently a new question popped up. Who is responsible for the old-fashioned, full-size windmill that is sitting ...