Jamestown Windmill

Jamestown Windmill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
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Location	Jamestown, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°30′59″N 71°22′28″W
Built	1787
Part of	Windmill Hill Historic District (ID73000276)
NRHP reference No.	73000057 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 14, 1973
Designated CP	October 2, 1978

The Jamestown Windmill is a smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane.

The 30-foot (9.1 m) high windmill was built in 1787 to coarse grind flint corn to feed to animals and finer corn meal for farmer families to eat.[2] It was built after the British occupational forces destroyed the previous mill around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island on a half acre of Col. Joseph Wanton's farm, which was confiscated because he was a tory.[3] It operated until 1896.[4] Several renovations were done in the 20th century, and it is maintained by the Jamestown Historical Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

Images

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  Windmill viewed from the grounds of the Friends Meeting House (Jamestown, Rhode Island)
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  Friends Meeting House (Jamestown, Rhode Island) with Jamestown Windmill in background

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island

References and external links

• Jamestown tourism information - including hours of the mill
• "Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, Rhode Island," (Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission)

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. The Jamestown Lighthouse, 2014, Jamestown Historical Society
3. Jamestown Sampler, Bertram Lippencott, 1980, GO Publishing Corporation
4. "Windmill". Jamestown Historical Society. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.