Windmills of Cape Cod 🌍

Bourne

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- At the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum

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Brewster

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Old Higgin's Farm Windmill: smock mill

Brewster

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Brewster

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Ocean Edge Golf Club:

I read once that the tower described in the history of the Golf Club here was once a windmill, though I can no longer find the reference.

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Buzzards Bay

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Windmill Beach House:

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Chatham

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smock mill

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Chatham

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Sur Mer: smock mill

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Chatham

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Dolphin Inn: mock - Honeymoon windmill!

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Eastham

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smock mill

Eastham

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Falmouth

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[Old Emmon's Estate Mill Project]

Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

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smock mill - The windmill at The Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village once stood on Cape Cod.

Greenfield Village mill, from a 1930s-40s linen postcard by Curteich

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Nantucket

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smock mill

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Orleans

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Jonathan Young windmill: smock mill

The Jonathan Young windmill was returned to Orleans ownership in 1983, after having first been built in the town about 1720. She was moved to Hyannisport in 1897, then given by the Groves family to the Orleans Historical Society in 1983, who then donated it to the town of Orleans. The final move brought it back to Town Cove Park, where it now stands.

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Orleans, 1995

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Sandwich

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Heritage Plantation: smock mill

Sandwich on book cover

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Truro

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Castle Hill:

pumped water

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West Harwich

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Yarmouth

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Judah Baker Windmill: smock mill

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Provincetown

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salt works

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Unidentified

Old Windmill - Photo by Herbert W. Gleason (11/19/03)
Old Windmill - Photo by Clifton Johnson

Questionable and definate mock mills

Windmill Motel, Sagamore - big image
Bringing a bit of Cape Cod to Japan
Old Windmill and Roses
Windmill Plaza, West Dennis - [photo]
The Christmas Tree Store, Sagamore Bridge - [photo] [designers] [company] [photos]
Nauset Knoll Motor Lodge
Unidentified location taken from a beach
Needlepoint design

Wind Engines

State Road, Tisbury, Marthas Vineyard
State Road, Tisbury, Marthas Vineyard
New Alchemy Institute used windmills to generate electricity around 1978-80

Wind turbines

Cape Wind plan to put a wind farm in place 5 miles off Cape Cod.

Bibliography

Windmills on Cape Cod and the Islands, Fredrika A Burrows, William S Sullwold Publishing Inc, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1978. ISBN 0 88492 023 2 (hardback), 0 88492 024 0 (paperback)
Cape Cod and the Islands - (Portraits of America), Eleanor Berman, reprinted by Chartwell Books Inc, 1995/98. ISBN 0 89009 881 6
"Sur Mer - a Chatham landmark on Shore Road" in Cape Code Home, '99 Annual Volume 4 Number 1 pp96-107, Lynn Van Dine; photography by Terry Pommett
The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod - A record of the 19th century economic boom in Barnstable County, William P Quinn, Parnassus Imprints, Orleans, Massachusetts, 1993. ISBN 0 940160 56 0
Windmills of Long Island, Robert J Hefner, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, W W Norton and Company, New York. 1983. ISBN softback 0 393 30141 9, hardback 039301780X, also 0939432005
Notes on Some Windmills in New England, Old-time New England, The Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Vol XX1, No. 1, January 1931, [31 pages, 8 illustrations, 14 photos]

General

Map of Lower Cape

Photograph Archive for the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association

Cape Cod Photo guide

TIMS Symposium - Mills on Long Island and Cape Cod, August 1992

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record

Last updated 13/02/2026