Young Brunette Girl With Pubic Hair Landing Strip Posing In The Village With Old Wooden Windmills

Of the 10,000 windmills in use in the Netherlands around 1850, about 1000 are still standing. Most of these are being run by volunteers though there are some grist mills still operating commercially. Many of the drainage mills have been appointed as backup to the modern pumping stations. The Zaan district has been said to have been the first industrialized region of the world with around 600 operating wind powered industries by the end of the 18th century. Economic fluctuations and the industrial revolution had a much greater impact on these industries than on grain and drainage mills so only very few are left.
Construction of mills spread to the Cape Colony in the 17th century. The early tower-mills did not survive the gales of the Cape Peninsula, so that in 1717 the Heeren XVII sent carpenters, masons and materials to construct a durable mill. The mill was completed in 1718 and became known as the Oude Molen and was located between Pinelands Station and the Black River. Long since demolished, its name lives on as that of a Technical school in Pinelands. By 1863 Cape Town could boast eleven mills stretching from Paarden Eiland to Mowbray.