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William Robertson, appointed clerk of the colony's Council in 1698, director
of the fledgling capital in 1705, and a city alderman in 1722, was a useful man
in Williamsburg's where he also operated a most serviceable windmill.
Reconstructed on its original site, Robertson's tall, lattice-vaned,
linen-sailed machine today commands Colonial Williamsburg's Windmill, Cooper,
and Rural Trades site. Near it, barrel makers and sawyers work, and
farmers tend rows of 18th-century staple crops like corn, tobacco, and wheat.
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