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Old Dempster Windmill
Old Dempster Windmill
$1,200
Dec 19, 2024
Description

  It is a 8ft -12 A Dempster windmill with metal blades and metal wood & tower. Was used for a well pump. Parts for them are still readily available on line. It can be a running windmill to pump water or as a backyard decoration.

  Tail has writing on it: DEMPSTER.

  DEMPSTER MILL MFG BEATRICE, NEBR.

  (Dempster Industries had actually been making a few of the world's finest windmills considering that 1878.).

  Asking $1499, PRICED REDUCED TO $1200! Make an Offer!

  ------------------- Call Six zero five-484-99six9 ---------------------------------------.

  Some info I found about the windmill ----------------------------------------------.

  Dempster Industries originally known as Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company was started in 1878 by Charles B. Dempster and located in Beatrice, Nebraska. During this time the Civil War was over and lots of American and Immigrant families were heading west to occupy a new life where the U.S. government was providing them homestead land. Mr. Dempster knew these homesteaders would require water pumps, equipment and tools to make it through and flourish. A factory was developed to produce windmills, hand pumps, water well items and agricultural implements. Throughout the years following, Dempster produced hundreds of various products and machines for the water and agricultural markets. These included windmills, hand pumps, well cylinders, towers, well drilling devices, fly wheel kind gas engines, water storage tanks, piston pumps, centrifugal pumps, jet pumps, submersible water well pumps, and vertical turbine pumps.

  Throughout the World War II era, Dempster participated greatly in war production by producing additional information than 11/2 million 90-millimeter shells. In 1960, Investor Warren Buffett acquired the company from the Dempster household. Throughout 1963, Dempster Mill Manufacturing Co. was offered to a group of financiers and the name altered to Dempster Industries Incorporated. In 1985, the company was offered to Don Clark and was independently had.

  In 2008 Dempster Industries Incorporated was offered to Wallace and Felicia Davis. Dempster Industries is no more in business.

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