In the early 1930s, businessman Floyd M. Wilson created an elaborate garden at his home on East Parmenter Street in Lamar, highlighted by a Holland windmill built in the backyard for the Wilson family by unknown builders. The windmill, featured in a Lamar Daily News article on September 27, 1935, had a red roof, a green wheel, Boston ivy climbing its sides, and working mechanisms designed to grind grain, with reportedly Dutch ironwork and likely imported plans. A stepping stone path led through an archway to the windmill, and the surrounding garden included rock walls, a birdbath, many kinds of trees and flowers, and a trickling stream ending in a fish pond. The Wilsons also displayed a rock collection from more than 30 European locations along with locally found stone, each piece numbered and labeled for its origin, and used these stones in the birdbath and garden walls. In 2004, the Robert Emick family of Lamar purchased the windmill from Scott Williams, then owner of the Parmenter Street property, and Robert and Helen Emick’s sons Donald, Michael, David, and Ken helped restore it on the Prowers County Courthouse lawn, where it was dedicated on May 22, 2005, on loan to the citizens of Prowers County and again could be enjoyed surrounded by seasonal flowers.