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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)
Pioneer Windmill is a historical marker in Hereford, Deaf Smith County, dedicated in 1970. It is one of 15 historical markers documented in Deaf Smith County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 20 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 34.8150, -102.3975 near Hereford. The nearest cataloged historic site is Deaf Smith County (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Deaf Smith Courthouse, 1910, Deaf Smith Co. Historical Museum, and Former Site of St. Anthony's Catholic School.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5117004036. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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