McConnell's Windmill, also known as Morristown Windmill and Stone Windmill, is a stone

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Morristown, New York Morristown is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 1,974 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Gouverneur Morris, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and landowner in New York. ...

. It was built in 1825, and is a coursed rubble stone structure measuring 40 feet tall and 77 feet in circumference. It was used as a

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

. The building has been used as a jail and as an Air Warning System Observation Post (N. 69 c) during

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. ''Note:'' This includes It is the only windmill on the

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side of the

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. It was listed on the

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in 1982.

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