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This mill got its power from an artificial pond: the high tide was trapped in the mouth of Cole's Brook by a dam with a special drop-gate, suspended from a horizontal timber. When the tides flowed out of the Hackensack River, the tidal millpond was slowly released through the waterwheel. Sloops pulled alongside the mill at New Bridge Landing.
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 Tide Mill at Southold, erected in the 1640's by Thomas Benedict, holds a place of distinction in American history as the first recorded English mill in the New World. It paved the way for future tide mills and contributed to the economic growth of the Southold community. [1] This was the first mill on Long Island's east end at Southold ...
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 ...
Millville is an unincorporated community located along River Road (County Route 521) and Shimers Brook in Montague Township of Sussex County, New Jersey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Montague Grange and other parts of the community are in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area .
New Bridge was a prosperous mill hamlet, centered upon a bridge strategically placed at the narrows of the Hackensack River.In the American Revolution, New Bridge Landing was the site of a strategic bridge crossing the Hackensack River, where General George Washington led his troops in retreat from British forces November 20, 1776.
Volendam Windmill is a smock mill located on Adamic Hill Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, United States.. The windmill was designed and built in 1965 by Paul and May Jorgenson, using windmills they had seen in Denmark and The Netherlands as models.
80-82 and 90 Dayton Avenue and 6-32 Mattimore Street, Passaic, New Jersey: Coordinates: Area: 26.4 acres (10.7 ha) Built: 1889: Architectural style: Industrial: NRHP reference No. 91000928 [1] NJRHP No. 2350 [2] Significant dates; Added to NRHP: July 26, 1991: Designated NJRHP