ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch are building windmills again. Up and down the coast, out from port cities like this one, you can see them: white and tall and slender as pencils, their slim… ...

In the 1960s, almost every Dutch windmill stood still. Now, one of the country’s oldest working ones is spinning again to help make artisanal bread.

This low-lying nation relied for centuries on the power of windmills to drain water away from its swampy land and grind grain into flour. Windmills also sawed wood used in sail ships that plied ...

From the only authentic Dutch windmill operating in the United States to multiple beaches to tulips for miles to breweries and an assortment of eateries, there's a little bit of everything to see ...

Holland windmill: Going Dutch since 1965. Ellen Creager. Detroit Free Press. ... The gift shop even sells flour ground at the mill at the super bargain price of $2 for 2 pounds.

An icy wind blows the windmill's ... "I live from the wind," says Dutch miller Maarten Dolman, one of only about 40 people in the Netherlands to still earn a living from making flour in a way ...

The age-old craft of using windmills to to ... land and grind grain into flour. Windmills also sawed wood used in sail ... do work or spend time on a mill," said d'Ailly. “Every Dutch citizen ...

For hundreds of years, the Oranjemolen in Vlissingen, in the Netherlands, milled corn flour. But Danish utility Orsted has given the 17th century windmill – which looks out on the North Sea near the ...

Holland — Every Holland schoolchild knows about DeZwaan, the 200+-year-old Dutch windmill dismantled and reassembled in Holland in 1965. However, the story you’ve heard is just the beginning.

An icy wind blows the windmill's soaring sails, turning them quickly and cranking the large stone wheels inside in a time-honoured method of grinding grain. “I live from the wind,” says Dutch ...