In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in Cedar Rapids. A year later, the company decided to save on shipping and start ...
The pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill's whirling blade and then pulling the underground pipe to make way for ...
ODESSA -- Their towers rise from the ground, their silhouettes a nostalgic reminder of America's pioneer past. But look closer and see that, constant as the blowing wind, the wheels of West Texas ...