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The windmill, by Nathaniel Dominy V, was raised on 23 May 1795 on the "Mill lot" within 50 feet of the old "Petticoat mill" (1771). The 'Petticoat' was dilapidated after the Revolutionary war and need replacement. It was painted white, like the nearby wharf, to aid sailor's navigation.
Gardiners Island Windmill. Gardiners Point Island is an tiny islet in Block Island Sound that is the former location of both the Gardiners Island Lighthouse and Fort Tyler. Once a peninsula of Gardiner's Island, it is the location of a 14 acres (5.7 ha) parcel the federal government purchased from the Gardiners in 1851 for $400.
Mill. Gardiner mill and cottage 20180916. The Gardiner Mill, built in 1804, is a New England style smock windmill built by Millwright Nathanial Dominy V. and operated as a grist mill serving area farmers. The timber used for the mill was cut from trees on Gardiner's Island and it was finished on September 28, 1804, costing more than 528 pounds ...
37. Sandpiper Hill House Windmill. (1928) windmill replica built into a Gilded Age Mansion. 38. Arthur W.B. Wood House and Mill replica, Montauk (1928): Constructed in 1928, the Arthur W.B. Wood House and Mill replica in Montauk pays homage to the historical significance of windmills in the region.
Gardiners Bay. Gardiners Bay is a small arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 10 mi (16 km) long and 8 mi (13 km) wide in the U.S. state of New York between the two flukelike peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island. It is bounded on its eastern end, where it connects to Block Island Sound, by Gardiners Island and Promised Land.
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Southold was a center of windmill building activity by the golden Age of smock mills, 1795-1820. A smock windmill still stands, the Sylvesters (1810) of Shelter Island. The Peconic windmill (1840) was neglected after the 1898 storm and razed in 1906. A replica windmill was restored in Aquebogue that is a copy of the 1804 "Pantigo" smock mill. [22]
Gardiners Point Island is an island in Block Island Sound, New York, that was the former location of the Gardiners Island Lighthouse as well as Fort Tyler. Once a peninsula of Gardiners Island – permanently detached in 1888 by a storm – it had an area at least as large as 14 acres. Today it is part of the Long Island National Wildlife ...