Stone Windmill

Morris St., Morristown, New York. County/parish: St. Lawrence.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 02, 1982. NRIS 82004689.

Part of Morristown Village MRA (NRIS 64000574).

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

McConnell's Windmill

McConnell's Windmill, also known as Morristown Windmill and Stone Windmill, is a stone windmill in Morristown, New York. It was built in 1825, and is a coursed rubble stone structure measuring 40 feet tall and 77 feet in circumference. It was used as a grist mill. The building has been used as a jail and as an Air Warning System Observation Post (N. 69 c) during World War II. It is the only windmill on the American side of the St. Lawrence Valley.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314678