List of windmills in Rhode Island
Appearance
This is a list of traditional windmills in the American state of Rhode Island.
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block Island | Harbor Mill | Smock | c. 1810[1] | Blown down 1938 | |
Block Island | Littlefield Mill | 1877[2] | Standing 1900 | ||
Bristol | Smock | 1797[3] | Moved to Fairhaven, Massachusetts 1821.[4] | ||
Bristol | Smock | Mid-18th century[5] | Moved to Fall River, Massachusetts[6] | ||
Bristol | William Boyd's Mill | Blown down 1815.[7] | |||
East Greenwich | East Street | Smock | c. 1790 | Moved within East Greenwich 1874 | |
East Greenwich | East Greenwich Mill 41°39′49″N 71°27′23″W / 41.66361°N 71.45639°W |
Smock | 1874 | ||
Jamestown | Jamestown Mill 41°30′59″N 71°22′28″W / 41.51639°N 71.37444°W |
Smock | 1787 | ||
Little Compton | (1st mill)[8] | ||||
Little Compton | (2nd mill)[9] | ||||
Middletown | Boyd's Mill[1] 41°30′03″N 71°16′09″W / 41.50083°N 71.26917°W |
Smock | 1810/2001[10] | ||
Middletown | Prescott Farm Mill | Smock | 1970[11] | ||
Middletown | Chase Mill | Smock | 1797[12] | Moved within Middletown c. 1855.[13] | |
Middletown | Chase Mill | Smock | c. 1855[14] | Moved to South Dartmouth, Massachusetts 1924.[15] | |
Middletown | Harkness Mill | Smock | 1845[16] | Burnt down November 1905.[17] | |
Middletown | Boothden Mill[2] | Smock | 1883 | Burnt down early 20th century | |
Newport | Newport Tower 41°29′08″N 71°18′35″W / 41.48556°N 71.30972°W |
Tower | c. 1677[18] | ||
Newport | Smock | Moved to Middletown (Chase Mill) at unknown date.[19] | |||
Newport | 1663[20] | Blown down 1675[21] | |||
Portsmouth | Quaker Hill Mill | Smock | Moved within Portsmouth c. 1876[22] | ||
Portsmouth | Lehigh Hill Mill | Smock | c. 1876[23] | Moved to Middletown 1970[24] | |
Portsmouth | John Peterson's Mill | Smock | 1810[25] | Dismantled 1995, rebuilt at Middletown 2001.[26] | |
Tiverton | Smock | Moved to Newport at unknown date.[27] | |||
Warren | Smock | 1812 | Moved to Fall River, Massachusetts at unknown date[28] | ||
unknown location | Smock | 1770s[29] | Moved to Block Island c. 1810.[30] |
Notes
known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
Source
^1 Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1.