Located on 28 acres (110,000 m2) of city park land east of downtown Lubbock, the museum has more than 160 American style windmills on exhibition.

Wolfe, a faculty member at Texas Tech University, began searching for windmills in the early 1960s.

Thirty years later, there had been several individuals who had restored a number of early mills and Wolfe located one of these in Mitchell, Nebraska.

By this time, Harris was working with Wolfe and he arranged, disassembled and moved this collection of forty-eight rare windmills to Lubbock.

This 660 kW turbine stands on a 50-meter tower and provides (on a yearly average) all of the power required by the museum facility.