Custom Windmills
Sims Windmill
(unknown location)
Aurburn, IL
Status
Destroyed
Millwright
James Sims
History
“The first grist mill in Auburn Township was built by James Sims, and
stood on the north part of the Wineman farms, east of the present
village of Auburn”
The next paragraphs elaborate specifically on water-grist mills, so in
the author’s opinion this may well have been a wind-powered mill.
Sources
-History of Sangamon County, Illinois. Inter-State Publishing Company, 1881.
