Mid-America Windmill Museum

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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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Windmill Museum Trivia


  • Mid-America Windmill Museum is the only windmill collection to have all 11 Flint & Walling model windmills made.
  • Mid-America Windmill Museum includes the 1854 Hallady Standard windmill.  The first commercial windmill ever made.
  • Mid-America Windmill Museum has the last Flint & Walling manufactured windmill that came off the production line in 1954.
  • May 23, 1994 was the Official Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the Mid-America Windmill Museum..
  • Mid-America Windmill Museum started with a collection of only 10 windmills. Now the collection has grown to over 50 windmills.
  • June 1994, the Mid-America Windmill Museum was honored to host the 6th Annual International Windmill Trade Fair.  It was the first time the event was ever held east of the Mississippi River.
  • 70 bricks rescued from a demolished Flint & Walling building used for manufacturing windmills forms the cornerstone of the museum’s exhibit area, an 1880’s bank barn.
  • Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company began in 1866 at the corner of Oak and Mitchell Streets in Kendallville and still have offices there.
  • Early Flint & Walling products included farm machinery, plumbing equipment, and wooden hand pumps.  Windmills were another early major line of products.
  • Famous “Star” windmill was patented in 1870’s and sold for 40 years.  It set the standard for other manufacturers in the industry.
  • Each major change in windmill design and construction produced a new windmill that was assigned a new model number.  The Flint & Walling model number was the year of the design change.
  • “Star Zephyr” Model 37 was the last major change in windmill design.  It was produced until 1954 when Flint & Walling made the shift to manufacture electric submersible pumps.