Kinderdijk is a village in South Holland, located in the Alblasserwaard. The village is part of the municipality of Molenwaard. Kinderdijk is located where the North and Lek rivers meet. The place is mainly known for the Kinderdijk windmills. The main activity consists of shipbuilding. Kinderdijk was protected from the water by two administrations, the Overwaard (on the east side of the Middelkade) and the Nederwaard (on the west side of the Middelkade). The Nederwaard built eight mills, stone ground-sailers, in 1738. The second mill is open to the public. The Overwaard also built eight mills in 1740, these were octagonal ground sailors. Kinderdijk was the first Dutch place with an electricity supply, in 1886. Electricity was generated in Kinderdijk by the Netherlands' first power station, designed and built by Willem Benjamin Smit, also one of the founders of Electrisch-Licht-Machinen Fabriek Willem Smit & Co.
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