Atwood KS wooden windmill

[babraid]

A friend just returned from Iowa, and he saw a big beautiful wooden windmill on Road 25 about a mile north of Atwood KS. He said it looked very well restored and maintained, but didn't get a pic of it.

Does anyone know anything about this mill?

Thanks

[fivepicker]

Looks like a Baker-Monitor type "L" 10' wheel , concrete football counterweight , at the Lake Atwood entrance off of hwy 25 .

[babraid]

Neat! Thanks. I wonder if it's somehow related to the Monitor L they have on the Antique Engine Association's grounds in nearby Bird City...? Maybe there was a Baker dealer around that area back in the day?

[babraid]

My friend in Atwood says the mill was put up by, and is owned by the city.

[Challenge 27]

I should consider myself fortunate. While still in high school (way, way back in the 1970's) I went through Atwood and saw that windmill.

It had been restored by a man with the first name of Anton. I am not sure of how to spell his last name correctly. It was pronounced something like "Dozoba." Hopefully some member of the forum will know to properly spell it. (My apologies to his relatives for mangling his name.)

Stopped to take a photo. Mr Anton was nice enough to unfurl it and let it spin for me. At that time it was in his back yard. He had drilled a well so his windmill could pump and water the lawn as it ran. When I first saw it was less than a year after he had restored it, so it was freshly painted and all the wood was new.

Mr Anton was getting on in years, as some would say, way back then. It is not surprising that he has passed. But his windmill ended up on the northwest shore of Lake Atwood.

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P.S. Probably was 1975 when I first saw it, but it could have been 1974.

[Wayne]

Thanks for the Info!