Mills in the Virtual Motor City Collection of photos

Detroit is not an city that you would normally associate with wind powered devices. I therefore wasn't expecting much when I tried out the search available at The Virtual Motor City which gives access to the photo archives from the Detroit News (now housed at the Wayne State University). In fact I found a few interesting images:

• Belle Isle : Windmill at Bridge, under construction in 1928
• Windmill at Greenfield Village; 1976
• A billboard on behalf of the Environmental Energies Inc and the American Wind Energy Association welcoming The World Energy Conference to Detroit in Sept 1974. The billboard is surmounted by a small wind turbine.
• The watermill in Hudson, Detriot in a very delapidated state 1929