Spaghetti fundraiser planned to restore 1866 windmill

Spaghetti fundraiser planned to restore 1866 windmill

(Rockwall County) In 1866, just one year after the Civil War, J.A. Hartman erected a windmill over a 45-foot, hand-dug well to provide water to the cotton gin which would bear his name.  Among the first such contraptions to be installed in Rockwall County, the Hartman Mill’s steel tower was erected on oak pilings to […]