Rural Windmill
by Dawn Gari
Title
Rural Windmill
Artist
Dawn Gari
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Windmills were common in the Midwest and Great Plains in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Farmers used windmills to mine groundwater for crop irrigation, livestock, and personal use. Windmills filled water tanks for steam locomotives. Indeed, windmills helped to transform the arid Great Plains into a breadbasket. The electrification of rural America in the first half of the last century eventually made the windmill an anachronism.
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February 2nd, 2015
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