Jamestown Windmill
Jamestown Windmill is located in Rhode Island
Jamestown Windmill
Jamestown Windmill is located in the United States
Jamestown Windmill
LocationJamestown, Rhode Island
Coordinates41°30′59″N 71°22′28″W / 41.51639°N 71.37444°W / 41.51639; -71.37444
Built1787
Part ofWindmill Hill Historic District (ID73000276)
NRHP reference No.73000057 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 14, 1973
Designated CPOctober 2, 1978

The Jamestown Windmill is a smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane.

The 30-foot (9.1 m) high windmill was built in 1787 to coarse grind flint corn to feed to animals and finer corn meal for farmer families to eat.[2] It was built after the British occupational forces destroyed the previous mill around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island on a half acre of Col. Joseph Wanton's farm, which was confiscated because he was a tory.[3] It operated until 1896.[4] Several renovations were done in the 20th century, and it is maintained by the Jamestown Historical Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ The Jamestown Lighthouse, 2014, Jamestown Historical Society
  3. ^ Jamestown Sampler, Bertram Lippencott, 1980, GO Publishing Corporation
  4. ^ "Windmill". Jamestown Historical Society. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.


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