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Pioneer Windmill |
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1st and Main, Hereford,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
34° 48' 51.24022999992",
-102° 23' 51.5753400012"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
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. (1970)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Pioneer Windmill Historical Marker Location Map, Hereford, Texas
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