The current mill is at least the third on this site: the first was a post mill, which was rebuilt as a round stone mill in 1707. In 1803, that mill was demolished and replaced by the current tall stone mill.
This lasted until 1937: in that year, the mill, which was in poor condition, was dismantled; a large stone body remained. In 1945, the municipality of Schiedam became the owner of this remnant.
Rehabilitation followed in 1962/1963: the mill body was given a new roof, rods and stage and thus became a beautiful city mill again. During this restoration, large parts of the roof construction of the Old Mill of the Nieuw-Lekkerland polder were used: this had not been repaired after a broken axle in 1944 and was completely demolished in 1957. The upper shaft came from the mill of the polder mill De Vereeniging in Pieterzijl, Groningen, which was demolished in 1955, and the upper wheel, bonkelaar and catch came from the Aurora in Noordbroek, at the time the highest mill in the province of Groningen. Not unusual for a Groningen mill (but certainly for a South Holland one): for example, there is an upper wheel with six folding pieces.
After 1962, the mill remained mainly a static monument. It was not until 1970 that it was turned regularly again and, with the rise of voluntary millers and the sharp increase in activity in Schiedam in the field of mills, the mill came back into the picture. Every now and then, the mill was also used for grinding, but that remained more or less an exception, also because the lower part of De Noord was put into use for the catering industry in the 1970s: first as a tasting room for gin producer Bols, whose factory was a stone's throw away; then as an expensive specialty restaurant. As such, the mill still functions today.