Custom Windmills
Jung Windmill
Gardner Road and Harrison Street
Broadview, IL 60155
Status
Destroyed
Owners
John Jung (? - ?)
History
There is no other information available about this windmill other
than the following quotes. The first is from the Franzosenbusch
Heritage Society:
“In 1884 this windmill (pictured
to the left) was located on the John Jung farm, Puscheck Road (since
renamed Gardner Road). This site is now occupied by Photopress,
Inc. People came from miles around to have their grain ground.
Mr. Jung served in the Civil War and was the grandfather of Mrs. Hulda
Knox of Broadview.”
The other is from the Hillside Public Library's History of Hillside:
“Every farm boasted an orchard and a windmill but water had to be
carried into the homes with buckets. Three of the German pioneers
erected typical Dutch windmills, one which stood on the John Jung farm
on Puscheck Road, (now Gardner Road and Harrison Street, Broadview);
another still stands in the Mount Emblem Cemetery in Elmhurst.”
The third “German pioneer” farmer in this statement is not mentioned.
