Bronson Windmill

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Bronson Windmill is a historic windmill at 3015 Bronson Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. Built in 1893–94 for Frederic Bronson to supply water for his large dairy farm, it remains the town’s only surviving windmill. The octagonal tower stands about 80 feet tall with a base about 17.5 feet in diameter. It is framed with Georgia pine and anchored by locust beams buried 6 feet into the ground, fastened with iron rods. The sides taper as they rise, with rectangular windows, and are clad in wooden shingles topped by a domed roof and a rooster-shaped wind vane. The blades are stored inside the building. The mill was used to draw water into an underground cistern. It was built by the Corcoran Storm-Defying Windmills Company of New York City and Jersey City. The windmill sits on the west side of Bronson Road opposite Fairfield Country Day School and is the only windmill remaining from Fairfield’s former landscape. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is part of the Greenfield Hill Historic District.