Pioneer Windmill
A wind-driven machine for pumping water. Its use made gardening easier and led to irrigated farming on arid High Plains. With barbed wire, it enabled settlers and stockmen to penetrate region in 1870s.
Town had name “Windmill City” because of some 400 towers once on landscape.
Marker is at the intersection of East 1st Street (U.S. 60) and South Main Street, on the right when traveling east on East 1st Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
