Day Tripper: Elk Horn, Iowa
Aug. 25th, 2013 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I complete my series of southwestern Iowa activities with the only working Danish windmill in America.
Unlike the Dutch windmills, the Danish windmills were used for milling grain. This particular windmill was built in 1848, and bought and dissembled and then reassembled in Iowa in the 1970s.
It is next door to a danish restaurant that was quite good, and the town (home of the largest Danish population outside of Denmark and Chicago) is also home to a Danish immigration museum (which house Victor Borge's first piano)
Unlike the Dutch windmills, the Danish windmills were used for milling grain. This particular windmill was built in 1848, and bought and dissembled and then reassembled in Iowa in the 1970s.
It is next door to a danish restaurant that was quite good, and the town (home of the largest Danish population outside of Denmark and Chicago) is also home to a Danish immigration museum (which house Victor Borge's first piano)
