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Windmill Museum, Nebraska

Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer. His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill. Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique. His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.

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Jim Richardson
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WATER: Ogallala Aquifer
Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer. His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill. Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique. His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.