The Jonathan Young Windmill is believed to have been built around 1720. The exact date is unknown. Restored in the mid-1980s by volunteers and contributions, the mill stands in the middle of Town Cove Park as an historic and cultural exhibit. During the summer months the windmill is open to visitors. The interpretive program on the history and working of the mill is outlined by the resident miller on duty.
Admission is free but donations for the maintenance fund are welcome.
Captain Snow was an early Orleans merchant of coal, grain and lumber transported to Orleans by his 90-ton schooner Nettie M. Rogers, which docked in Town Cove. This was the beginning of today's H.H. SNOW and SONS hardware store. The ell on the main house was the galley of the ship Orissa, wrecked on Pochet Beach in Orleans in 1857. Each historic site with an asterisk denotes the location of an historic marker.