place

Volendam Windmill

Agricultural buildings and structures in New JerseyBuildings and structures in Hunterdon County, New JerseyDutch-American culture in New JerseyFlour mills in the United StatesGrinding mills in New Jersey
Holland Township, New JerseyNew Jersey building and structure stubsOctagonal buildings in the United StatesPower station stubsSmock mills in the United StatesWind power in New Jersey
Volendamwindmill
Volendamwindmill

Volendam Windmill is a smock mill located on Adamic Hill Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, United States. The windmill was designed and built in 1965 by Paul and May Jorgenson, using windmills they had seen in Denmark and The Netherlands as models. The Volendam Windmill Museum is a working mill driven by wind, used for grinding raw grain into flour. The 60-foot structure is seven stories high with sail arms 68 feet from tip to tip. In 2007, two of the sail arms of the windmill were damaged in a windstorm. As of 2021, the county's website shows that the museum is closed.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Volendam Windmill (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Volendam Windmill
Adamic Hill Road,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Volendam WindmillContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 40.5966 ° E -75.1639 °
placeShow on map

Address

Adamic Hill Road
08848
New Jersey, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Volendamwindmill
Volendamwindmill
Share experience

Nearby Places

Musconetcong River
Musconetcong River

The Musconetcong River is a 45.7-mile-long (73.5 km) tributary of the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey in the United States. It flows through the rural mountainous country of northwestern New Jersey. The name derives from the Lenape words moschakgeu meaning "clear" and hannek meaning "stream". Part of it is a National Wild and Scenic River. It rises out of Lake Hopatcong, on the border between the borough of Hopatcong in Sussex County and the township of Roxbury in Morris County. It flows through Lake Musconetcong, then flows southwest, past Stephensburg and New Hampton, passing south of Washington then along the southeastern side of the Pohatcong Mountain ridge. It joins the Delaware at Riegelsville, approximately 10 mi (16 km) south of Phillipsburg. The river does not flow through any large population center and has been the site of relatively little industrial development throughout its history. In the 18th century, the surrounding hills were largely deforested as a source of charcoal for the iron industry in the surrounding region. The local industry declined by the middle of the 19th century after the building of the former Morris Canal, the course of which ran along the upper river, to bring coal from Pennsylvania to northern New Jersey. After the demise of the canal from the introduction of railroads in the late 19th century, the dam pools along the river that supplied the canal became the site of a popular summer cottage industry. Silted remnants of the pools, as well as the remnants of the canal itself, can still be seen along the river. Human habitation in the Musconetcong Valley can be traced back approximately 12,000 years to the end of the last ice age. The Plenge Site along the lower river in Warren County was the first of only two major Paleo-Indian archaeological site excavations in New Jersey, and is considered one of the most significant in the northeastern United States.The USGS stream flow gauge at Bloomsbury has the river's flows recorded from as far back as 1904. The average flow over the time recorded for the gauge at Bloomsbury is approximately 244 cfs. Record flows of the river were recorded in 2011 as result of Hurricane Irene.According to an urban legend, the river is also home to a creature known as the Musconetcong River Mantis Man, a somewhat humanoid, somewhat insect-like creature.