The mill “Het Pink” (The Yearling) was built in 1751, probably on an older foundation.
It is an octagonal bovenkruier (windmill of which only the cap is movable) with scaffolding, with a wingspread of 23 meters! A for a Zaanse industrial-mill pretty huge wingspread. “Het Pink” is fit up as oil-mill. When the association “De Zaansche Molen” became owner of the mill in 1939 it was restored. Once “Het Pink” was situated in a meadow-area, but that’s been build full nowadays, so people don’t notice the mill very quickly between the houses of Koog aan de Zaan. The mill before “Het Pink” was a “wip”-mill (a mill of which the complete upper-part turns with the wind), in North-Holland also called “koker”–mill. 
There still exists an image of it, which you can see in the eastern-barn of the mill. “Het Pink” had to deal with fire 2 times. In 1792 it burned because it grinded while it stormed, but they managed to keep the fire under control. And when in 1915 the lightning took in they managed to end the fire in the beginning.