Mid-America Windmill Museum

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    Baker Hall Recption Center     Power Mill Building     Robertson Post Windmill     Samson (O'Connor) Windmill

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Museum Open
April – November

 

Hours

 Tues. – Fri. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
 Sat. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
 Sun. 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

 

Admission

 Adults $4.00
 Seniors 55+ $3.50
 Student/Child $1.50
 Children under 6 Free


Address

 732 S. Allen Chapel Road
 Kendallville, IN 46755
 260-347-2334


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History of the Museum Cont. Part III


Spring is a time for building and that is just what the Mid-America Windmill Museum and the Timber Framers Guild of North America did. For two weeks at the end of May 2000 guild members and many museum volunteers worked to build the frame structure that would become the Robertson Post Windmill. Once the framing was done, the museum volunteers installed the roof, siding, and flooring. During the next few years, new windmills and buildings continued to be added to the museum. A power mill was located in Omaha, Nebraska. It was an “open-back geared” Aermotor with a 12’diameter wind wheel. The mill was erected on a new forty-foot steel tower in spring 2002. American Builders Inc. of Angola, Indiana built a 16’x32’ pole building around the base of the tower to house typical farm processing machinery including a corn sheller, fanning mill and a burr mill.

In the spring of 2003, plans were being made for the restoration of a Samson windmill with an 18’ diameter wind wheel. That mill was identical to the windmills on the Arizona ranch of then Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The suggestion was made to dedicate the mill to her in honor of her service to the country. Permission was granted to do so and we invited her to the dedication ceremony which would be held during our windmill festival in June 2004. She and her brother Alan gladly accepted the invitation. We were again privileged to host the 17th Annual International Windmillers Trade Fair in June 2005.