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Old Higgins Farm Windmill

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Built
  
1795

Opened
  
1795

NRHP Reference #
  
75000240

Added to NRHP
  
10 June 1975

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Location
  
Brewster, Massachusetts

Similar
  
Stony Brook Grist Mill, The Crosby Mansion, Breakwater Beach, Brewster Historical Society, Cape Cod Museum Of Natural H

Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old King's Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900. The windmill was moved a number of times the last from Ellis Landing in Brewster to its current location in 1974. In 1975 it was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places.

The windmill was donated its then owner, Mrs. Samuel Nickerson, in memory of her husband, to the Brewster Historical Society which continues to maintain it at its current location.

References

Old Higgins Farm Windmill Wikipedia