Eastham Windmill

Good spot. Live music some nights. Grab your family and a picnic basket and come down. Windmill is sometimes open and you can go explore it and ask questions

cute, historic location. great place to just sit with a blanket and relax after your beach or whatever you do on your vacation. One of the most well known windmills on cape cod!

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Eastham Windmill is not only a very old windmill but the actually the oldest windmill on Cape Cod. It was built waaaaaay back in 1680 by Thomas Paine. Since it is always windy on the Cape, windmills were a great source of power for grinding up things like corn and other materials.
The windmill moved around quite a bit over the centuries, which demonstrates just how important they were. It was built in Plymouth then moved to Truro in 17 770 then to another part of Eastham in 1793 and then to it’s present location in 1808. Quite a bit of jumping around for the poor old windmill.
The venerable windmill is the now the center attraction of Windmill Park and it’s very unlikely to move again. The park isn’t very large but has a nice gazebo, a few artifacts and of course the windmill. A pleasant place to take a stop while driving through the cape.
The mill still grinds corn on occasion for demonstrations and the town of Eastham has an event called Windmill Days on the first weekend after Labor Day. The old windmill struts it’s stuff once again and various food, drinks and displays are available around the park. The Eastham Windmill isn’t the largest windmill around but it certainly is an old one and is wearing it’s age very well.