Dutch Windmill

It was built in 1902 to pump water from wells near the windmill to the reservoir on Strawberry Hill, after the Park Commission approved development of a windmill of the Holland type. It was designed by Alpheus Bull, Jr., a mechanical engineer from the Union Iron Works, and had a capacity of 30,000 gallons per hour. The pumps were electrified in 1913, and during the Second World War the internal machinery was removed for the scrap metal drive. Funds were donated for a rehabilitation, which was completed in 1981 after several years of work donated by the U.S. Navy Construction Battalion. A caretaker's cottage was built next to the mill in 1903 and was demolished sometime after 1935.