THE WIND AND WATER MILL OF FROMENTIÈRE
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A mill-cavier located in Huismes which has kept its feeder and which is still operational.
This windmill, built in the 18th or 19th century, has lost its wooden hut at the top, the hucherolle, and its wings, but it has kept its massereau, the stone cone used to support this small hut. But since it also functions as a water mill, it is still operational. Initially owned by the parish of Saint-Louand, it was attached to Huismes in 1792. In the tufa stone that frames the door, one can read the inscriptions engraved with the tip of a knife by the miller who counts the cereals processed: wheat, oats, wheat... The windmill was associated with the neighboring water mill of the same name. Only one miller was assigned to the use of both "mills". Depending on the wind or the water flow, the mill activated the millstones with the force of the wind or the force of the water. The Fromentière mill was abandoned during the first half of the last century. In 1969, heritage lovers began to look at the building, which had been damaged by years of inactivity, with the idea of saving it. If the mill had only the shaft of its wheel left, inside the millstones and the mechanisms were still in place... The restoration of the wheel, the canal and the gates was finally realized in 2006. Today it is the only mill in the Chinon region whose wheel can turn. It is open to the public during the "Journées du Petit Patrimoine" in June, but can be admired all year round from the hiking trail that crosses it.
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