List of windmills in Massachusetts
This is a list of traditional windmills in the American state of Massachusetts.
Locations
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Barnstable | 1687 | ||||
Barnstable | 1785 | ||||
Beverly | Chipman's Tannery | Vertical axis mill | 1795 | ||
Bourne | Joe Jefferson's Mill[1] | Smock | 1889 | Moved within Bourne, 1971 | |
Bourne | Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Mill[1] | Smock | 1971 | Windmill World | |
Boston | Copp's Mill | 1632 | Standing 1659 | ||
Boston | Copp's Hill Mill | Smock | Moved to Salem, 1773 | ||
Boston | Windmill Point | 1636 | |||
Boston | Windmill Point (2nd mill) | 1650 | |||
Boston | Windmill Point (3rd mill) | 1650 | 1822 | ||
Boston | Windmill Point (4th mill) | 1650 | 1824 | ||
Boston | Windmill Point (5th mill?) | Tower | 1833 | ||
Boston | Widow Tuthill's Mill | 1642 | |||
Boston | South Mill | 1643 | 1644 | ||
Boston | Windmill Hill | 1636 | |||
Brewster | Ellis Landing Road Mill | Smock | 1795 | Moved within Brewster unknown date | |
Brewster | Smock | 1845 | Moved within Brewster 1890 | ||
Brewster | Smock | 1890 | Moved within Brewster 1974 | ||
Brewster | Old Higgins Farm Mill 41°45′08″N 70°07′16″W |
Smock | 1974 | Windmill World | |
Brewster | Golf course | Windmill World | |||
Brockton | 1781 | ||||
Brockton | West Falmouth Mill | Smock | 1922 | Burned down, unknown date | |
Buzzards Bay | Beach House Mill | Smock | Windmill World | ||
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1853 | Moved within Cataumet 1850s | |
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1850s | Moved within Cataumet 1905 | |
Cataumet | Red Brook Mill | Smock | 1905 | ||
Cataumet | Rothery Mill | Smock | 1900 | ||
Cataumet | Rothery Mill (2nd mill) | Smock | Early 1900s | ||
Chatham | Chatham Mill 41°40′34″N 69°57′33″W |
1797 | Windmill World | ||
Chatham | Smock | 1820 | Moved within Chatham 1911 | ||
Chatham | Sur Mer Mill | Smock | 1911 | Windmill World | |
Chatham | Chatham Bars Inn Mill | Smock | c. 1730 | Moved to South Orleans 1830 | |
Chatham | Benjamin Godfrey Mill, Mill Hill | Smock | 1797 | Moved within Chatham 1956 | |
Chatham | Benjamin Godfrey Mill | Smock | 1956 | ||
Chatham | Dolphin Inn Mill[1] | Smock | 1980s | ||
Chatham | Robert Horne Mill | Smock | 1920s | ||
Chilmark | Elmer Bliss Mill | Smock | 1938 | ||
Dennis | Uncle Rufus Howes' Mill South Mill |
Late 18th century | Demolished 1874 | ||
Dennis Port | Reuben Burgess Mill | Smock | Burned down unknown date, gone by 1885. | ||
East Dennis | Hatsel Kelly Mill | 1775 | Struck by lightning and burnt down 1869. | ||
Eastham | 1660 | ||||
Eastham | Kaskaogansett Mill | 1682 | |||
Eastham | Eastham Mill | Smock | 1793 | Moved within Eastham, 1808 | |
Eastham | Eastham Mill | Smock | 1808 | 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. | |||
Fall River | smock | Moved from Bristol, Rhode Island. Moved to Tiverton, Rhode Island at unknown date. | |||
Fall River | Littlefield Mill | Smock | 1815 | Moved to Block Island, Rhode Island, unknown date. Gone by 1877 | |
Harwichport | SW side of South St | Smock | 1792 | Moved to NE side of South St at unknown date | |
Harwichport | NE side of South St | Smock | Moved to Wychmere Harbor 1890s | ||
Harwichport | Wychmere Harbor (north site) | Smock | 1890s | Moved within Wychmere Harbor 1900s | |
Harwichport | Wychmere Harbour (south site) | Smock | 1900s | Moved a short distance (50 feet (15 m)) early 1940s | |
Harwichport | John Smith Mill | Smock | Early 1940s | ||
Hyannisport | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1897 | Moved to Orleans 1983 Windmill World |
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Hyannisport | Landmark House Mill[1][2] | Smock | 1911 | ||
Hyannisport | Wright Mill[1] | Smock | c. 1900 | ||
Ipswich | Windmill Hill Mill | 1667 | |||
Marblehead | Rhodes Hill Mill | 1678 | 1681 | ||
Marblehead | Saltworks (two mills) | 1804 | One blown down October 1804 | ||
Marblehead | Goodwin Mill | 1819 | |||
Marstons Mills | Cape Cod Airfield Mill[1] | Smock | 1950s | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1815 | Moved within Martha's Vineyard 1842 | |
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1842 | Moved with Martha's Vineyard 1888 | |
Martha's Vineyard | Lothrop Merry's Mill Tisbury Mill |
Smock | 1888 | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Timothy Chase Mill | 18th century | Collapsed 1818 | ||
Martha's Vineyard | Tailer Mill | Post | 1985 | Moved to Etzikom, Alberta, Canada 1995.[3] | |
Nantucket | Frederick Macy Mill, Mill Hill | Post | 1723 | Demolished 7 December 1837 | |
Nantucket | Mill Hill (2nd mill) | Post | 1810 | ||
Nantucket | Mill Hill (3rd mill) | Post | 1810 | ||
Nantucket | Mill Hill (4th mill) | Post | 1810 | ||
Nantucket | The Old Mill | Smock | 1746[4] | Nantucket Historical Association | |
Newbury | 1703 | 1774 | |||
Newbury | Saltworks | c. 1784 | |||
Orleans | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1839 | Moved to Hyannisport 1897. Windmill World |
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Orleans | Jonathan Young Mill | Smock | 1983 | Windmill World | |
Osterville | Le Petit Moulin[1] | Smock | 1950s | ||
Osterville | Oyster Harbours Mill[1] | Smock | 1925 | ||
Plymouth | Plimoth Mill | Smock | 1680 | Moved to Truro, 1770 | |
Provincetown | Salt works (six mills) | Windmill World | |||
Sagamore | Christmas Tree Shop Mill | Smock | 1983 | At the eastern base of the Sagamore Bridge and attached to the Christmas Tree Shop | |
Salem | near the burial ground | 1637 | |||
Salem | 1733 | 1771 | |||
Salem | East Street Bark Mill | 1794ref name=New/> | |||
Sandwich | Heritage Plantation Mill | Smock | Windmill World | ||
Sandwich | Old Mill | Smock | 1819 | Moved within Sandwich 1957 | |
Sandwich | Old Mill | Smock | 1957 | ||
South Chatham | Seth Bearse Mill | c. 1850 | |||
South Dartmouth | Chase Mill | Smock | 1924 | ||
South Dennis | Smock | 1791[5] | Moved to West Dennis | ||
South Orleans | Captain Arey's Mill | Smock | 1830 | Moved within South Orleans 1870 | |
South Orleans | Center Mill Captain Arey's Mill |
Smock | 1830 | Moved to Cataumet 1900 | |
South Orleans | East Mill | ||||
South Orleans | Kenrick's Hill | Smock | Mid-18th century | Moved to Orleans 1839 | |
South Yarmouth | Farris Mill | Smock | 1750s | Moved to Indian Town 1782 | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1866[5] | Moved within South Yarmouth, 1875 | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1875 | Moved within South Yarmouth 1916 | |
South Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1916 | Moved to Yarmouth 1953 | |
Swansea | Potter's Mill | Standing 1931 | |||
Truro | near the Highland Light | 1711 | |||
Truro | Truro Mill | Smock | 1770 | Moved to Eastham, 1793 | |
Truro | Castle Hill Mill | Smock[6] | |||
Truro | Truro Highlands Mill | Smock | Early 19th century | ||
Watertown | Moved to Boston 1632 | ||||
Wellfleet | David Baker Mill | ||||
Wellfleet | Thomas Higgins Mill | ||||
Wellfleet | Freeman's Mill | ||||
Wellfleet | Samuel Chipman's Mill | ||||
Wellfleet | Ryder Mill | Smock | 1838 | Moved within Wellfleet 1870 | |
Wellfleet | Morning Glory Mill | Smock | 1870 | ||
Wellfleet | Wellfleet Harbor[1] | 1978 | |||
West Dennis | Kelley's Pond Mill | Smock | Moved to South Yarmouth 1866 | ||
West Falmouth | Bowerman Mill | Smock | 1787 | Moved to Brockton, 1922 | |
West Harwich | Smock | Moved to Cataumet early 1900s | |||
West Harwich | The Windmill House Mill[1] | Smock | 1920s | ||
West Yarmouth | Farris Mill | Smock | 1782 | Moved to Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan 1935 | |
Yarmouth | Sautucket Mill | 1661 | |||
Yarmouth | c. 1687 | ||||
Yarmouth | Judah Baker Mill | Smock | 1953 | Windmill World | |
Yarmouth | 1766 | Moved to East Dennis 1775 | |||
unknown location (north side of Cape Cod) | Smock | Mid-17th century | Moved to South Yarmouth 1750s |
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
^1 Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1.
References
- Mock Mill, never a working windmill
- Originally a water tower
- "European Windmill Alberta". Canada Photos. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
- "#165 Old Mill in Nantucket (1746)". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- "Judah Baker Windmill". Historical Society of Yarmouth. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- "CASTLE HILL BARN NEEDS YOU!". Castlehill. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
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