1701 Canyon Lake Drive
Lubbock, TX, 79403
806-747-8734
URL : http://www.windmill.com
overview : A Museum for the American Style Water Pumping Windmill and Related Machinery with Exhibits on Wind Electric. - Located in Mackenzie Park - Lubbock Texas - Formerly known as the National Windmill Project.
collections : Between 1854, the year Daniel Halladay, a New England machinist, obtained the first American windmill patent, and 1920, over 700 companies manufactured some type of windmill. Prior to 1920, tens of thousands of windmills were sold and erected across the Great Plains. - The windmill gave railroads access to underground water, permitted ranchers to fence and selectively breed cattle and farmers to live on land where there were no rivers, streams, or lakes. This history can now be told in a permanent facility dedicated to the preservation of the American-style windmill.
topics : agronomy, water, hydrology, renewable, energy, agriculture, technology, American, 19th, 20th, century, history
