Old Higgins Farm Windmill

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Old Higgins Farm Windmill
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Old Higgins Farm Windmill
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Location Brewster, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°45′8″N70°7′16″W / 41.75222°N 70.12111°W / 41.75222; -70.12111
Built1795
NRHP reference No. 75000240 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 10, 1975

Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old King's Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

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The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900. [2] The windmill was moved a number of times the last from Ellis Landing in Brewster to its current location in 1974. In 1975 it was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places. [3]

The windmill was donated by its then owner, Mrs. Samuel Nickerson, in memory of her husband, to the Brewster Historical Society which continues to maintain it at its current location. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ Bollerud, Erica (2007). Insiders' Guide to Cape Cod and the Islands. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot. p. 191.
  3. 1 2 Brewster Historical Society (2002). Images of America Brewster. Brewster, Massachusetts: Arcadia. p. 15.
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