ILLINOIS WINDMILLS
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Fordham Windmill
Status
Destroyed.
Millwright
Elias Pym Fordham
History of the Mill
Only known history is that Elias Pym Fordham constructed a “prairie windmill” for grinding grist “north of the Ohio River” near the Big Wabash River in what was then considered New Albion, IL.
bracing, and stage of the windmill.
Source
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Colyer, Walter. “The Fordhams and La Serres of the English Settlement in Edwards County.” Albion, IL