Dutch Windmill
Restored early nineteen-hundreds pumping windmill beside tulip beds, sails turning again after decades of ruin.
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This guide to the Dutch Windmill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park follows a girl named Eleanor Rossi Crabtree, born the same year the windmill's sails first turned in 1903, who lost the use of her legs to polio and was driven here by her father, San Francisco's mayor, just to watch the mill spin - she called it her special joy. It traces how electric pumps made the mill obsolete within a decade, and how salt air and neglect left it a gutted, hollow shell behind the tulip beds by the 1950s.
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