Väderkvarnar/windmill Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Stingh on 30-Jun-02. Waypoint GC6A9A

Found that Mill "Molen van Sloten" 22-9-2002 in Nederland.

The Sloten Windmill is a tower mill, with an octagon from 1847. It is the only mill in Amsterdam that is accessible to the public. The mill lies on the outskirts of Amsterdam, at the ring canal and sees to it that the water level in the lower lying surroundings remains below a specific level. Throughout the year this polder draining mill, which is still functioning, can be visited daily between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ( with the exception of 1st January, 30th April (Queens' Day) and 25/26th December). The Sloten Mill has a lift, so that also elderly people and physically handicapped will be able to visit the gallery (balcony). With pleasure a number of voluntary co-workers explain everything during the guided tour through the mill. And if it is at all possible, the miller shows how he turns the mill cap so that the vanes face the wind, how he let the vanes rotate or on the contrary stops them, or how he puts the sails in the vanes. In short, it is worthwhile to pay a visit.

Greetings Jever/Germany

Found at Sainte-Marcelline, Quebec, Canada. This wind mill is located at the entrance of the village.

This windmill is located at Saint-Alphonse-de-Rodriguez, Quebec, Canada in front of the old restaurant "A la tournée du moulin". It's became also a bar with pool room.
Now it's closed. Thanks for the cache

Windmill at [url=http://www.superpages.com/cities/mtg/37535/]Aptucxet Trading Post[/url]
Bourne, Massachusetts, USA

The windmill located at the entrance to the grounds of the Aptucxet Trading Post was originally located on the grounds of "Crow's Nest," the summer home of actor Joseph Jefferson, a good friend and fishing companion of president Grover Cleveland. This Dutch-style windmill is reminiscent of the days when windmills were an integral part of Cape Cod life in the grinding of grains as well as pumping salt water for the salt works so prevalent on Cape Cod in the 1800's.

Looking through these log entries reminds Mr. Seeker of visits to Holland when he was in high school. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and the cache!

# 171
Hunting a windmill in our neighbourhood is easy, because there are many working windmills in this area; province Groningen, North-Netherlands.
This one is called "Molen Dijkstra" and it' s located in Winschoten, that has a nickname "Molenstad" (Millcity), because 7 mills are located there. Molen Dijkstra is still working, grinding seed. Also a mill where new millers get their education. More information about this mill:http://www.groningermolens.nl/Molen%20Dijkstra%20gegevens.htm
(only available in dutch)
Greetings from the Buterianen

Middletown, Rhode Island
Boyd’s Eight-vane Wind Grist Mill is one of the last two survivors of more than twenty known wind mills which once worked to supply the daily needs of Aquidneck Island. It is the only eight-vane smock mill ever built and operated in New England and one of the very few survivors in the United States.

In 1810, John Peterson built this mill and a house on fifty-six acres of land near the intersection of Mill Lane and West Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and where the mill remained for 185 years. William Boyd first leased the mill then bought it in 1815. It has been known as Boyd’s Wind Grist Mill ever since. Peterson and two millwrights constructed the mill in an octagonal "smock" style, so-called because of an alleged resemblance to a man in a smock – the loose garment our forefathers wore during weekdays.

The mill fell into disrepair and was almost lost until saved by the Middletown Historical Society and moved to the Paradise Valley Park. The mill is open to the public on Sunday afternoons from May through September and guided tours are provided.

Found [URL=http://www.windmuehle-wichtringhausen.de/] Windmill Wichtringhausen[/URL] in Barsinghausen-Wichtringhausen near Hannover, Lowersaxony, Germany.

Unfortunally the four Wings were mounted off during winter. In 2006 they will mount reconstructed wings.

The incorporated society has already reconstructed a nearby watermill.

schmittinger

Located in Alcublas, Valencia, Spain, near a real cache (GCK3JG).

I thought about logging one of the El Quixote ones, in Consuegra, Spain, but this one is more original.

found the small windmaill in the tainan city,taiwan.

Gefunden in der Nähe von Mindelheim Germany
Greetings

A very cool 4 arm windmill on Historic Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is also a first stage of my Windmill cache in the area that also take you by a 5 arm and a very rare 8 arm model!

Windmill at Havnø at Mariager Fjord.

Located this well kept windmill in Milpitas, CA, USA on a stormy winter's day. Thanks!

i found this Windmill near Bedburg in Germany.

Thanks for this Cache

Ralf

I found this windmill in my neighbourhood; Obdam, The Netherlands. This windmill stands on the Obdammerdijk.

Greetings Team Geolukentjes

Unknown name
Found in St-Jean-Port-joly Québec Canada
There was another in that area.
cache_eater

Not far from the centre of Cape Town, South Africa, This is Mostert's Mill.
It was built in 1796 by a Dutch Settler farmer and was restored to working order in 1936 by the Netherlands Government.

This is the Galegas Windmill, near Ribamar, Mafra (Portugal).
It belonged to my grandfather until a few decades ago when it was sold to the actual owner.
Next to it are three new windmills used in the production of electricity.

A replica dutch windmill found in the Temecula Valley, California. Real sheep wandered a pasture nearby.

New Bradwell Mill. Restored mill in Milton Keynes, UK. A thanks to KiwiGary for making us aware of this cache.

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Windmill ??? in the middle of Muenster ???

I was suprised to see one.
This windmill is standing in an open-air museum where are a lot of building from aroun Muenster are on display.

Greetings from Muenster / Germany

Schnueffelnasen

[Sorry could not get a better picture over the fence ]

Trouvé sur le domaine de l’Auberge Le Baluchon lors d’une sortie de geocaching…
Found on the premises of Auberge Le Baluchon, while doing some geocaching in this area.
http://www.baluchon.com/contenu/le_site_ang.cfm

Caching in Wheeling, WV and remembered your locactionless cache when driving by this on Rt. 40! Couldn't believe it was a working windmill! Not sure of the name, started with an L, but couldn't pronounce it. Very cool Thanks

St Roch's Mill

A wheat mill, from the 17thcentury restored in 1997

These two windwills are located in Midland, TX. They are still in use today after, I'm quessing, decades of service. I would have never sought out such an iteresting place, thanks for the great cache.

This is the recently restored windmill "Ballingsta" by the beautiful lake Orlången between Haninge and Huddinge.

While searching for the Skieppekop cache (GCQZ9T) we found the seedmill "De Zwaluw" which includes a sawmill also.
It is placed in Birdum, Friesland The Netherlands.
The mill was build in 1875, but was burned down in 1972 and rebuild in 1986.

Fleming's windmill was builded in 1827 in Lasalle, QC, Canada.
Thanks for the cache!!

Found this one in Lisbon. As you might know, Lisbon is a very hilly city, and in the outskirts there still exists some windmills ("moinhos"). These are the moinhos de Santana, from here you can see the river Tejo and the Belem area, very touristic zone.

Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

We were at Arneys Mount in Burlington County New Jersey today to get a locationless cache. The highest elevation in the county. As we pulled over to the side of the road to look for the mount my wife noticed this unique windmill. As I was taking the picture the owner came out and inquired what we doing. We explained to him the Hiking with a purpose hobby (geocaching) we started doing for exercise. He explained to us that his windmill(although not active at the time of the pictures) use need to draw water from the spring underground. Located behind the windmill is a building that ois on the national historic list. Its the Arneys Mount friend meeting house from the 1700's. A unique and clever wind mill.

Found this mill in Ter Haar, Groningen, the Netherlands.
It's the beginningpoint of cache GCN8K0

Found this windmill at Montijo, POrtugal. This is a typical portuguese windmill that has been restaured.

Ricardo Silva

In the village where I was born (Horn in the Netherlands) there are still 2 windmills. I choose to take a picturen of the mill called "De hoop" (The Hope). It was build in 1817, and is still working!

This windmill is located in Sant Just, near Barcelona, Spain.
In this zone there are three mills, just in the entrance of Barcelona.
Greetings.

We found this windmill in Immerath / Germany. There a lots of them in the surroundings.

Thanks for the cache; greetings from Cologne 2cachefix

Zowaar! Being Dutch, this cache is not very difficult to log. This one is in the northern part of Amsterdam, called De Admiraal (the admiral). It dates from 1792 and was used to grind the ingredients for making paint. TFTC. Simone

This picture is taken in Vaassen, which is a city with a population of 16.000 in the Middle of The Netherlands.
The windmill is not in use anymore and is dated from 1870.

"Tack så mycket" for the cache (I hope my Swedish is correct )

Ce moulin à vent est situé au Zoo de Québec.
This windmill is located inside the Quebec City Zoo (Canada).

TFTC


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St. Louis, Missouri
The Bevo Mill

We found this working windmill, built in 1916, which is 3 1/2 stories tall and houses a restaurant at it's base.

Windmühle am Wall

... und anderenorts. Fünf klassische Windmühlen haben in Bremen die Zeit überdauert, von denen jene im Stadtteil Oberneuland als Museum zu besichtigen ist. Im engeren Innenstadt-Bereich ist die Windmühle am Wall erhalten, die bis 1950 in Funktion war. Heute Wahrzeichen der Wallanlagen, der alten Bremer Stadtbefestigung, deren Mauern 1802 geschliffen und in einen Park umgestaltet wurden.

Team Becks

Die Segelwindmühle in Lemkenhafen auf Fehmarn wurde 1787 von dem Kornhändler und Schiffsreeder Joachim Rahlff (1756 - 1830) gebaut. Zu dieser Zeit ging es der Region Fehmarn wirtschaftlich sehr gut, hier wurde Gerste und Weizen zu Grütze und Graupen vermahlen und in die nordischen Länder ausgeführt. Die 1953 stillgelegte Graupenmühle wurde 1957 vom Land gekauft; sie steht als ein der Ältesten in Schleswig-Holstein unter Denkmalschutz. 1960 ging sie in den Besitz des Vereins zur Sammlung Fehmarnscher Altertümer über, der hier 1961 ein Museum eröffnete, das außer dem Gebäude selbst das erhaltene Mahlwerk sowie alte Kornmaße zeigt. 1963 - 1965 erfolgte der Ausbau des anliegenden Speichers zum Museum landwirtschaftlicher Geräte, wo auch Modelle Fehmarner Bauernhöfe gezeigt werden.

Gruß Klaus

We found this old dutch windmill this afternoon while caching in Smith Center, Kansas. It was built by Charles G. Schwarz and used to grind corn, wheat and other grain until about 1914.

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

THIS OLD WIND MILL FOUND IN OBELIN OHIO ON A FARM JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM OBERLIN COLLEGE...GREAT VIEW OF THIS WINDMILL ON A BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY..LAST WEEK THIS WIND MILL SUFFERED SOME DAMAGE FROM THE LEFT OVER HURRICANES PASSING UP NORTH INTO THE GREAT LAKES...TFTC...RAGEXN!!!

This is a typical Portuguese windmill and can be fond in Alcabideche, Portugal. In this place you can also find several others like this but in worse conditions . There’s also one recently recovered for educational purpose. Schools can visit it and produce their one bread. Unfortunately it isn’t a 4 wings windmill, but rather one with an American design (metal tower with several wings). You may be confused by the number of poles but I assure you that each pole only receives one big triangular wing.
Thanx
Sara and Hugo
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This windmill was build in 1623. The mill is located near a village called Gronsveld in the south of The Netherlands very close to the Belgium border.

Pylone

Found this while doing a cache that uses it as a clue, surprised that no one had claimed this one.

The windmill was built in 1757 and is now a private house. We were in Amsterdam on Holiday so were happy to have found a location less windmill in the home of windmills.

Thanks for the cache.

Located in lovely Lyden, WA we found this little treasure.
We will include a couple of photos so you can indeed see that the wings are moving.

Thanks,
May_Treks

Found this old windmill in "Gammel Rye" 20 km. south-east to Silkeborg in Denmark. Today there is a museum inside the mill.

Found this Windmill in Dibbersen. In the Moment i take the picture, there was a wedding ceremony in the mill. The Windmill is a kind of "Gallerie Holländer " in a very good look. Dibbersen belongs to Lower Saxony in Germany.
Regards Prafectus

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This is a beautiful wind mill in Springfield, Tennessee USA

Hello from Duisburg/Germany!
I found this Mill in Xanten. That`s in Germany but very close to the Netherland boundary. This Mill is allready in use and at the first floor is a very good bakery!
Greatings from Duisburg,

der_Pate1970

Found this windmill in Tüngeda,Germany.
Greetings from Germany
Tom

Wind mill found in Dorval, quebec, Canada.

Found this outside of Lille, France

I found the mill on the way to home.

Thx

Team Hildanus

We have this one near our place in the Netherlands, Obdam.

So I was driving trhough Long Branch, New Jersey today and this giant red and white windmill was in front of me. I figured it would have been logged but it doesn't appear to be so I'm logging it! TFTC!

i found it in St-Fabien, Québec, Canada.

it`s fonctionnal but not use anymore, they use it as a musium

thanks for the reverse cache !

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I found this Windmill nearby little Village called "Badersleben" in Germany.

This windmill is located in Lamar, Colorado which claims to be the windiest place in Colorado. Although the windmill is functional, it is no longer used for milling.
Thanks, B&D

Found a windmill with four wings. this is a mill from the cache Round 'n round.
forgot to write down the name of the windmill, maybe that Ghost33 will remember the name.

I do have a picture of the windmill and me.

The windmill was used for grinding seed. He is still working but not for production use anymore. It is now a little museum.

I hope that you allow me to log this cache.
Otherwise I will find you an other windmill that is still in production.
There are not many who are still grinding seed for production use.

found this windmill with theedg4u2
made a picture of it the name of the windmill is the molen van sloten

This is the old windmill "Mühle von Rönn" in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany.
TFTC
Keitaro64

Wow, lots of windmills in the Netherlands.... which one to choose??? We took coordinates and pictures of the largest in the neighbourhood. In the middle of the city of Delft you'll find 'molen de Roos' where you can buy flower for baking bread.

Greetz, team Lieveheersbeestje from the Netherlands

Found this windmill in Bielefeld/ Germany. It's part of a rustic museum.

This beautifull windmill is located in Warnsveld near Zutphen in the east of Holland. The mill is named Nooitgedacht.Build in 1905. Restaurated in 1956, 1968, and 1981. Type, Stellingkorenmolen.

Le Moulin de Moidrey - can be found just south of Le Mont Saint Michel on the north French coast. The mill is still in working order and can be used for milling grain. The mill dates from 1806.

In the Netherlands it is not a challange to find a windmill, I can find a dozen or so within a hour on the bikecycle. Because 95% of the mills are built for pumping water I needed some searching for one what grinds seeds.

This one I found by accident, it is situated in Bloemendaal and called: "De Zandhaas" (in english: the hare in the sands)

#84

bjorri, de reis is het doel.

We found "The Lily", a dutch windmill replica at the Stirling Range, Western Australia. Please visit www.thelily.com.au
Greetings, Thomas & Birgit (Germany)

Found this one near Sheparton, Victoria Australia

This windmill was found at Hönö, just outside the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. It was built before 1845 and was moved to the present location 1873.
N 57 41.723 E 011 39.796

ahoi!
found this one on the island Fehmarn / Germany!
it´s a mill-museum.

greetz
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I found this windmill near SOLVANG, CA it was part of a hotel just off the 101 freeway.

This is the St. Monans Four Sailed Windmill, found on the coastal Path outside the pretty Fishing village of St. Monans, in Fife, Scotland.

cheers
perth pathfinders

We found this windmill in Sohland am Rotstein/Saxony/Germany.

Nice greetings
willimax

We found this windmill during our cache in Kuilenburg (GCGD3W). The windmill is still working and is called "De Hoop"; in english "the hope". It is build in 1854. We hope that you will accept this log.
Thank you for the cache and greeting from Holland from Bunbury Ede

Saw this windmill when out caching close to Pittenweem in Scotland

This one is on highway 400, near Orillia, Ontario.

This windmill is placed next to Ericeira, Lisboa, Portugal. Thank you for the cache, Jibanez, Spain.

Fleming Mill, located On Lasalle boulevard in Lasalle, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1827, great historical site near St-Lawrence River.

I Found in Hochdonn - Germany

Stopped off on the way home to do this one! This windmill is on the seafront at Lythm on the Fylde Coast.

this little wind mill is at south shields on the north east coast of englnad

Windmill with four blades at an older popular garden nursery in Medicine Hat, Alberta. I have often stopped here because they usually stock uncommon varieties of perennials. Always a busy place during gardening season.
NOTE: All previous logs checked prior to logging find.

Found this windmill on the country road from Aalbaek to Lonstrup, in Denmark.

I found tzhis Windmill in Germany, Ostfriesland, in Greetsil. I took some Fotos. TFTC
Gruß Snowdream

Despite the claims of an earlier log windmills such as this can be found in Australia. This particular windmill can be found just outside Diamond Creek in Victoria, Australia. I have no idea of its name, but its been there for quite a while, it used to be the only building in that spot, now its surrounded by a suburban street. I'm not sure how real it is though, it seems more of a fanciful house than a functional windmill.

I spotted this windmill in suburban Amsterdam, Netherlands. I can't tell you much about it, except that its name is Molen Van Sloten, it was built in 1847, it celebrated its 150th anniversary on 19 June 1997, and that it has a business ensconced on the ground floor. TFTC.

There is only one sort of windmill to be found in Australia and it pumps water for stock. There is only one true blue brand and that is Southern Cross.

This one is in a surban park on a small bore. The water is pumped for a water feature.

And this a translation from Alta Vista. Not sure if it is of any use.

Es gibt nur eine Art der in Australien und in ihm gefunden zu werden Windmühle, Pumpwasser für Vorrat. Es gibt nur eine zutreffende blaue Marke und das ist südliches Kreuz.

Dieses ist in einem surban Park auf einer kleinen Ausbohrung. Das Wasser wird für eine Wassereigenschaft gepumpt.



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