While researching early twentieth century South Jersey I came across this interesting picture on the National Park Service site:
"Windmills such as this derelict one in Leesburg, provided mill power in Cape May and Cumberland counties. Wettstein, 1920s."
I guess everything new is also old. I remember seeing the derelicts when we went to Wildwood, NJ as children in the 1950's.
Harold
I find such images to be highly evocative, Harold. The two women at the base of the structure are dressed in a style that would have been popular prior to WW II, and I'm thinking it would be the 20's. If I am even within 10 years on either side of 1920, the mill is well aged already. It must have been constructed in the 1870-1880 period, perhaps earlier.
-Crandell
I have an HO windmill kit by Kibri that my brother picked up for me while he was visiting Holland a few years ago. I've been trying to figure out how to fit it in on my US prototype layout. I thought I could use it as part of a Holland-themed restaurant or hotel.
From your comment about "everything old is new again," I assume you're talking about the sudden popularity of wind turbines used to generate "green" electricity. Just this past weekend, I was driving along I-10 in California near Palm Springs, where there is a HUGE wind farm. Those things are all over the valley up there. It just seems kind of odd because from a distance, compared to the surrounding mountains, they look like little pinwheels. It's hard to imagine that each one is really hundreds of feet high.
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
stokesda From your comment about "everything old is new again," I assume you're talking about the sudden popularity of wind turbines used to generate "green" electricity. Just this past weekend, I was driving along I-10 in California near Palm Springs, where there is a HUGE wind farm. Those things are all over the valley up there. It just seems kind of odd because from a distance, compared to the surrounding mountains, they look like little pinwheels. It's hard to imagine that each one is really hundreds of feet high.
Those are hardly a fadish attempt to be "green," however--that wind farm has been there for many years.
Many years ago my wife (before she was my wife) went to college in Lamars Iowa. Up the road was Orange City. They have Dutch wind mills and a tullip festival once a year. This great country of ours is so diverse that a wind mill would not look, or be out of place. Historicaly speaking of course!