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The earliest known wind powered grain mills and water pumps were used by the Persians in A.D. 500-900 and by the Chinese in A.D. 1200.
The first windmill manufactured in the United States was designed by Daniel Halladay, who began inventing windmills in 1854 in his Connecticut machine shop
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The Netherlands has the most windmills
More than 1.000 old windmills still exist in
the Netherlands. The largest concentration of Dutch
windmills can be found near the village of Kinderdijk
(“Children's dike”)
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Oldest windmill in the U.S.
The Farris windmill is said to be the oldest windmill in the United
States. It was built in the mid-1600s and operated in Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. The Farris family ran it for three generations,
starting in 1782.
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