Vermeer Mill

The Vermeer Mill is a fully functional 1850s-style windmill, reaching 134 ft high. The Vermeer Mill grinds wheat into flour using only wind power and is the tallest working windmill in the United States. On the first floor is the base of the mill, where grain is brought in through the front double doors and hoisted up into the mill through a series of trap doors. The second floor is the compact space where the miller and his family would have lived. Be sure to take in the "bedstede," an in-the-wall bed that saved space and kept the sleepers warm with its doors that shut the bed off to the rest of the room. The third floor contains models of various windmills in the Netherlands. The fourth floor is used as storage. And then you're on the top floor--the fifth floor! Take in the giant blades and the superb view of Pella from the top.