ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Most windmills today are used to generate electricity or pump water. But along the shores of a man-made lake in Rotterdam, two giants of antiquated machinery remain ...

Lamar, Colorado, hosts one of the largest private windmill collections in the country. The Emick family in Lamar, Colorado, owns one of the largest private windmill collections in the United States.

A nearly 60-foot-tall windmill now stands behind the tan brick house on Duke Richmond’s property in northwest rural Rockford. “I have always been curious about windmills,” Richmond said “I think they ...

ERIE, Colo. (AP) - Just a faint breeze and the metal blades on the 1906 Dempster windmill are spinning furiously, creating a silver blur 30 feet off the ground and an almost hypnotizing rhythm. Soon ...

Mon., Sept. 9, 2019 Hugh Grim, left, a longtime hobbyist who restores old farm windmills, chats with Spokane County Interstate Fair visitor David Haraway, right, under an antique windmill that was ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man has found a retirement hobby that's unique in more ways than one. He spends his free time refurbishing and installing old windmills and to his knowledge, he's the only ...

The Antiquities Ministry has restored 90 percent of the antique windmill in Alexandria's Montazah area that was built by Mohamed Ali 175 years ago, according to Mohamed Metwally, general manager of ...

JACKSON, Neb. -- A small army of antique windmills stands watch at the entrance to the L.P. Gill Landfill near this town of 240, southwest of Sioux City. The 80- to 100-year-old prairie sentinels are ...

We're defining Siouxland in 150 icons. Follow along at siouxcityjournal.com. JACKSON, Neb. | It's been years since Midwest farmers and others relied on the wind to provide the water needed for crops ...

BUCYRUS - Visitors to the Crawford County fairgrounds will notice a new windmill near the Crawford Antique Farm Machinery building. The 40-foot structure was recently constructed, according to Dorothy ...