Golden, IL – The town of Golden is using its restored windmill as the focus of an annual Heritage Days celebration. Marlene Ihnen is one of the organizers. She said the town's Historical Society wanted to do more to show youth what conditions were like when the town was founded in the 1860s. The windmill was built in 1873, and restored in 2002. Ihnen says the celebration includes windmill tours, along with demonstrations of crafts and skills of the latter 1800s period. It also includes a flea market and exhibits of antique automobiles. The windmill museum has special exehits for the Heritage Days event. Ihnen says they plan to continue the celebration. It will be held in conjunction with the fall quarterly fundraising dinner that's held to help raise money for further restoration. The mill is complete and able to grind grain. Now the society is working on the covered portal where wagons pulled in to dump their load.
Windmill Focus of Town Celebration
