LUBBOCK, Texas (KFDA) – The idea for the American Windmill Museum in Lubbock came long before it was established in the 90s. <\/p>\n
Jason Miller, director\u2019s assistant, says Wolfe was a faculty member at Texas Tech and was involved in the Home Ec program. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn utilizing information, she would go out and take pictures of homesteads. In doing so, she would recognize windmills in the background,\u201d said Miller. \u201cSo she started to shift focus and started to focus on the windmill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller says Wolfe would travel a lot and speak with farmers and ranchers who had windmills. <\/p>\n
Around 1992, she met with the first director out here, Coy Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey got into cahoots together and came up with the American Wind Power Center. That\u2019s what it was originally called. Now it\u2019s the American Windmill Museum,\u201d said Miller.<\/p>\n
In 1996, the two got the museum granted property in McKenzie State Park. Miller says the City of Lubbock gave them the land as a home for the windmills.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, Billie passed away in 1997, but she had already got the ball rolling with the windmills,\u201d said Miller.<\/p>\n
In 1997, the Scarborough-Linebery Foundation out of Midland got a grant to the museum. That grant was used to help get the building up and running. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt goes back to bringing in new people, and the more that new from Lubbock or Post, Plainview, Amarillo \u2014 all around the surrounding counties, there\u2019s windmills everywhere,\u201d said Miller. \u201cThey drive past four, five, six, seven of them as they\u2019re trying to come and check out another 235 that we have out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The American Windmill Museum is located at 1701 Canyon Lake Dr. <\/p>\n
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