All the neighborhood children would rush over to sweep the floors, gathering flour to dump into a bag they could shoulder home so their mothers could bake bread. Whenever the miller had extra grain, he would hang a flag outside the windmill. Food was scarce for families there during the First World War, but the Jorgensen family lived down the street from a windmill. Poul’s idea to build what eventually became the Volendam Windmill Museum stretched far beyond the fact that he lived someplace synonymous with windmills: Holland Township. How hard can that be?” She had no idea what she was getting herself into. So Poul told her he wanted to build a windmill. Or maybe she recalled all the long hours of farming and felt that 65-year-old newlyweds should find a less demanding pursuit. Perhaps her memory flashed back to when she moved into the historic farm house in 1937 with her first husband, Stanley Folk, and found chickens clucking around the upstairs bedroom. But when he confessed May this, she wasn’t particularly thrilled. You see, Poul always wanted to be a farmer. When Poul Jorgensen married May Folk in 1964, he no doubt was happy to move onto her roughly 100-acre farm. We thought you’d enjoy learning more about it. This farm is also the site of the Volendam Windmill Museum, and although it’s not part of the preservation deal, the windmill and its construction is quite an interesting story, and serves as another example of our county’s rich cultural heritage. Hunterdon Land Trust preserved 127 acres of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Farm in Holland Township in 2017 to ensure it would remain farmland for generations to come.
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