in front of windwill
A white windmill stands out against the azure(bright blue) sky.
(The pic came out )
I enjoyed strolling along and appreciated the Windmill scenery^^
A useful man was Williamsburg's William Robertson. Appointed clerk of the colony's Council in 1698, a director of the fledgling capital in 1705, and a city alderman in 1722, he also operated a most serviceable windmill.
The windmill was the domain of the miller and his assistant. Robertson's was a post mill, a design that appeared in Europe in the Middle Ages. Its superstructure balanced on a huge, single timber--or post--to be turned into the wind by a man at the tailpole.
When the breeze spun the windmill's blades, a shaft and gear arrangement turned a millstone to grind corn into meal or wheat into flour. A bolting or sifting apparatus on the first floor fed the product into bags.
Traditionally, the miller collected a toll of one-sixth the weight, but there was room to bargain. For whatever it may say about Robertson's profits, he sold his windmill and four city lots to Mayor John Holloway in 1723 for a modest £80.
Cedar as well as other woods served for shingles. Demonstrations of how logs were turned into building products is a specialty of the site, found just beyond the Peyton Randolph House
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