| Fabyan Windmill | |
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 Fabyan Windmill in June 2008 | |
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | Old Holland Mill Old Dutch Mill Dutch Windmill Dutch Mill |
| Mill location | Geneva Township, Kane County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 41°52′17″N 88°18′21″W / 41.87139°N 88.30583°W |
| Operator(s) | Friedrich Brockmann (1875—1887) Louis Frederick Blackhaus (1875—1877) Herman Volberduig (1877—1885) Fred Runge (1887—1914) Colonel George Fabyan (1914—1939) Kane County Forest Preserve (1939—present) |
| Year built | Between 1848 - 1880 (estimated) |
Dutch Mill | |
| Nearest city | Batavia, Illinois |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1860 |
| Architectural style | Dutch Smock Mill |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000843[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 4, 1979 |
The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Kane County, Illinois, just north of Batavia, Illinois, off Illinois Route 25.[2] The five-story wooden smock mill with a stage, which stands 68 feet (21 m) tall, sits upon the onetime estate of Colonel George Fabyan, but is now part of the Kane County Forest Preserve District.
In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dutch Mill.[1] The following year, the windmill was selected to be on a U.S. postage stamp, as part of a series of five windmills in a stamp booklet called "Windmills USA."[3][4] It originally operated as a custom grinding mill.[3]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Location taken from National Register of Historic Places: NRIS 79000843 (4 June 1979).
- ^ a b "Fabyan Windmill". Forest Preserve District of Kane County. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ "Fabyan Windmill" (PDF). Kane County Forest Preserve District. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2015.