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A.J.Corcoran Co. built windmills (See Bourne Windmill) and Butler was a NY Attourney. The Butler windpump brand added improvements to the technology of windpumps in 1897, 1898 and 1905 [ 19 ] Corwith Mill - Built at Hog Neck 1799
Seal of New York City (BW) Jan De Witt, who had been the miller of the Old Fort Windmill, constructed a new "windmill and house" on the Eastern Post Road, now Park Row, which bordered the area that is currently City Hall Park in New York City. "Katie Mut," Dutch for "Katie's Bonnet," was a steep hill in colonial times, making it fit for placing ...
Hook Windmill, also known as Old Hook Mill, is a historic windmill on North Main Street in East Hampton, New York.It was built in 1806 and operated regularly until 1908. One of the most complete of the existing windmills on Long Island, [2] the windmill was sold to the town of East Hampton in 192
Douglaston Manor Windmill (c.1870s-1988) was a Dutch windmill built in Littleneck, New York to pump water for farming. Alley Pond Park has a standing windmill (built 2005) that is a replica of the Douglaston Manor windmill.
Old Mill Inn; Mattituck, New York. 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 ...
15 New York. 16 Rhode Island. 17 South Carolina. ... This is a list of "traditional" windmills in the United States, ... Old Dutch Mill:
The Hayground Windmill stood on the old triangular commons at the center of the village of Hayground, midway between Bridgehampton and Water Hill. This was the only mill in Hayground through the 19th century and serviced the village and surrounding countryside.
"The Corwith windmill is the smallest, and second oldest, of 11 surviving windmills on the South Fork of Long Island, which has the largest regional group of windmills in America. Of the local mills, it is the only example of the early type of smock mill, which had a stationary tower with a revolving cap that sat directly on a greased curb at ...