BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) - In recent years the oldest name in Beatrice manufacturing has received new life under new owners set to make Dempsters once again prominent in the ag industry. As new faces focus ...

In 2008, when we last visited Hugh Grim, two towering vintage windmills stood sentry in his yard at the southwestern edge of Spokane. The retired construction foreman had discovered a fascinating, ...

A historic windmill survived the 2013 floods but not recent high winds. The 1926 Dempster windmill outside the Milner-Schwarz house in Loveland was torn apart twice by strong winds, most recently on ...

The first manufacturer in Beatrice was said to have begun production in 1857 when the townsite company established a sawmill on the east side of the Blue River on the southwest corner of First and ...

ERIE, Colo. (AP) - Just a faint breeze and the metal blades on the 1906 Dempster windmill are spinning furiously, creating a silver blur 30 feet off the ground and an almost hypnotizing rhythm. Soon ...

BEATRICE — An Ohio family bought 130-year-old windmill maker Dempster Industries Inc. Wallace Davis and his family from Centerville, Ohio, bought Dempster, which is based in Beatrice. Davis said ...

— Excerpts from "Nebraska: 150 Years Told Through 93 Counties," a World-Herald book by staff writer David Hendee CHARLES B. DEMPSTER BOUGHT INTO A RETAIL PUMP AND WINDMILL SHOP IN BEATRICE IN 1878.

COMSTOCK — The Dempster House, named for the Dempster windmills which surround it, is now open to the public as a “bed and fix-your-own-breakfast inn.” ...

STUART, Neb. (AP) -- Tilting at windmills isn't Jim Taylor's style. Instead, the retired art educator from Stuart sees the intrinsic beauty of the wheel that spins life for farmers and ranchers across ...

I’m sure that a year ago the Revitalize Rural Nebraska Grant Program proposed by Sen. Myron Dorn of Adams and passed by the Legislature sounded like a great deal. Administered by the Department of ...