GC33KZ7 Windmill View # 22
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 09/05/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 19.234 W104° 05.091 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
   

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In 1854, a machinist in Connecticut (USA) named Daniel Halladay was asked by a traveling salesman to invent a windmill for pumping water and other uses. At first, he was skeptical that such a device could be sold, but he began manufacturing his new invention in Connecticut. Soon, he moved his factory to Illinois to be closer to the rapidly growing western market. His windmill first demonstrated that a windmill could automatically turn to face changing wind directions without human attention and could control the speed of the wind wheel so that it did not destroy itself in the frequent storms by running too fast.
Halladay’s company, the U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Co., went on to become the largest manufacturer of windmills in America for a time.

05/03/2019 By Unkle Fester
A nice little caching day, to Sunflower Mountain and back.... TFTC

02/03/2019 By chihuahuajill
Quick find. Thanks for placing this cache for me to find. TFTC.

09/04/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #49157

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide imusttravel2000, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

05/07/2018 By reforestgrrl
Park and grab… These are fun to look for the nearby windmills.

05/07/2018 By Cache Dipper
Quickie Thanks

04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

08/26/2017 By lasouthpaw
Even though it's a bit warm today this one made me glad I'm wearing pants. I could see 3 windmills from here. TFTC - #1709.

I had a much needed geocaching adventure today. I drove over from Denver to Goodland (KS) last night. Got up this morning and continued east to Mingo. Wound up caching my way there and then back towards Denver, ending with a power trail-ish run between Limon and Deer Trail. Got to see lots of sunflowers and even some antelope along the way. Cachly was acting funny, I'm pretty sure it wasn't bringing up all the caches, but oh well. Wound up caching until the sun went down. Now for all those logs…