When I went pass this old windmill earlier this month, it is still being restored so the blades are still off and the sliding is missing so it is not very picturesque as it was the prior year.
Old Windmill
Picture of the Day for December 16, 2021
Hopefully the brake was set on this old windmill otherwise with the strong winds yesterday, the windmill might have become airborne with the blades turning fast like an airplane propeller. This windmill was completed 1904 and was an active grinding mill until 1926.
Davidson Windmill
Picture of the Day for April 2, 2021
The old windmill would have been turning with the breezy conditions as the wind started to blow in some warmer temperatures again. The old windmills are disappearing as new bigger energy producing ones are going up.
Old Windmill
Picture of the Day for June 22, 2020
Taking four years to build, Jacob Tapola Davidson, a Finnish immigrant, finished the wind-power gristmill in 1904, the octagonal shape inspired by his coffee pot. The grinding stones, which came from rock near Amnicon Falls, could grind 300 pounds of grain an hour. By using long poles attached to the green section, the grinding speed was controlled by rotating the mill’s upper section with its 17 foot long sails.
Davidson Windmill
Picture of the Day for January 27, 2016
The wind was blowing the snow around today, so it probably could have turned this old windmill which was built by a Finnish immigrant and homesteader, Jacob Davidson. It is one of a very few grist mills in the Midwest, and the only one in Wisconsin known to be of Finnish origin. The mill built in 1900, sitting on a bluff overlooking the Amnicon River, was used for milling local grains from 1904 to 1926. The windmill located near Lakeside, Wisconsin, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Davidson Windmill
