Windmill+Museum

Kendallville, Indiana
Mid-America Windmill Museum

This windmill museum is the only one of its' kind in the Midwest and is second largest in the United States. Located in Kendallville, Indiana, about 30 minutes north of Fort Wayne on Route 6, it has over 50 windmills on site including a replica of the first windmill in North America, Robertson Windmill. Kendallville was surrounded by over 75 different windmill companies in the early 1900's. The Mid-America Windmill Museum was created mainly to showcase the windmills of Kendallville's Flint and Walling Company. The museum was started by Russell Baker and continues to be run by a 21 member Board of Directors and Volunteers.

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Photo Credit: Dick Wolfsie, published in his book, "Indiana Curiosities" in 2003 by The Globe Pequot Press.

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Flint and Walling began operations in 1866, on the corner of Oak and Mitchell Streets in Kendallville, Indiana. They continue to produce water pumps to this day. Flint and Walling's Windmills were found around the globe thanks to their revolutionary design.




 * [[image:photo35.jpg width="480" height="245" caption="F&W Windmill, Nantes France, Circa 1910"]] || [[image:photo37.jpg width="480" height="273" caption="F&W Windmills, Campeche, Mexico Circa 1915"]] ||

Photos courtesy [|Windmillers' Gazette]