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A wind-driven machine for pumping water, the pioneer windmill made gardening easier and led to irrigated farming on the arid High Plains. Together with barbed wire, it enabled settlers and stockmen to penetrate the region in the 1870s. The town was called “Windmill City” because some 400 towers once stood on the landscape.
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