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A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir . As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one-way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall.
Sparta was founded in 1795 in the newly formed Hancock County. The town was designated county seat in 1797. It was incorporated as a town in 1805 and as a city in 1893. [5] The community was named after Sparta, a city-state in Ancient Greece. [6]
The Red Mill, on the west, was built c. 1810 and Dunham's Mill, on the east, was built in 1837. [3] The Clinton House is likely located at the site of an earlier 18th-century tavern. [3] [4] The district has three churches. The Presbyterian congregation formed in 1829 and built the current church in 1864. [5]
The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. [1]
The mill was marked on a map dated 1579. [22] The mill was marked as Crenhurst Mill on a map of 1769. [23] Ramshurst Mill was marked on the 1801 Ordnance Survey map, [24] but not on Greenwoods map dated 1821. [25] In 1851, Henry Morgan was a millwright living at Ramhurst Mills, Leigh. A [26] [27]
Lloyd Harbor Tide Mill: Tide mill Date unknown Lloyd Harbor, New York: Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill: Tide mill: About 1793 The Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill is a historic tide mill located at Lloyd Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1793 and is a 3+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, timber-framed rectangular building little altered ...
Sparta is a township in Sussex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the township's population was 19,600, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] a decrease of 122 (−0.6%) from the 2010 census count of 19,722, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] which in turn reflected an increase of 1,642 (+9.1%) from the 18,080 counted in the 2000 census .
The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly 88.3 miles (142.1 km) [1] to Rondout Creek in New York, just downstream of Sturgeon Pool, near Rosendale, with the combined flows reaching the Hudson at Kingston.