May 4, 2012 (Cont) Pella Dutch Windmill

One of the neatest sites that we visited was the Dutch Windmill, this is a working grain mill,
it is an authentic 1850 Duch grain windmill.  And it is amazing, the Norweigian's began building
windmill's in the 1600's for every purpose the could think of, these amazingly built marvel's would
astound any modern day engineer.  This mill was built in the Netherlands, then
disassembled to be built here in Pella, Iowa, at the cost of 3 million, all funded through wonderful
people's donations. Enjoy the photo's.

View of the 1850 Dutch Grain Windmill

The windmill is 135 feet tall, the tallest working windmill in the

United States.

View looking down off the windmill.

Breathtaking

Steering control and brakes for the windmill.

They steer the blades when the wind moves.

Two of the four blades each measuring 41 feet long.

Front view of the grinding stone.

Finished flour bagged and ready to send down to the bottom.

View of the wooden cog's that the windmill turns,

to grind the grain.

Chute were the grain drops into the mill

Architectural rendering of the windmill

Construction of the windmill in Pella

Photo of a wind mill in the Netherlands

Bedroom where the miller and his wife a possibly the baby,

would sleep, they did not lye down just propped up with pillow's.

The lower compartment is for the coals, to warm the bed box.

Early cook stove for the grainer living in the windmill

At the bottom of the windmill looking up.

They would hoist the grain from the bottom to

the top of the grain mill, then once milled,

would lower the flour back down.

Replica of the windmill

Looking up from the bottom to the top of the windmill

Dutch canal through the village.