Milbank Grist Mill
South Dakota
That tall white windmill is the Milbank Grist Mill, and it is said to be the last of its kind in South Dakota. An English settler named Henry Holland built it in eighteen eighty four, five years before South Dakota became a state. Designed in the English style, it stands forty four feet high, with four great sails, each one about thirty feet long.
For more than twenty years it ground the local wheat into flour and kept the town of Milbank fed, until it fell idle around nineteen oh seven. Two local womens study clubs later bought the mill and gave it to the city. Over the years it was moved more than once to keep it visible.
It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen eighty one.
