Today’s larger wind farms can include hundreds of 280-feet ... modern behemoths of the 21st century there were the much smaller, water-pumping windmills of the 19th century.

"When they finally got water, they felt very lucky. The advancement of the windmill on the farm was very, very important - you didn’t have to pump the water - it did the work for you." ...

Arbor Day Farms in Nebraska City and for the Antelope County Museum in Neligh. The windmills do not pump water out of a well, but they are working display models that spin and show live action ...

a farm,’ ” Robeson said. “It’s an icon.” The American-style windmills were used for pumping water before the introduction of electricity or in places that weren’t on the electrical ...

Like most windmills still around, it was electrified by a prior farm owner, with a motor installed on the pump down in the well to pull water from the ground. The Allens like old things ...

The Windmill Farm and Bed & Breakfast outside of Tolar ... Some went back to work pumping water while others got retirement homes as ornamental relics. Chuck says he has retired from restoring ...

"Then other people said if you are looking for a windmill, I've got one. I've got one. I've got one. And it just kind of bundled up," Rodman said. Century-old farm relics once used to pump water ...

As a young lad of five or six, it was my job to walk across the farm yard, take the wire holder off the wood lever, let it go and the fan blade would turn toward the wind and start pumping water ...