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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.
Gerretsen's Mill is an 18th century tide mill, at Gravesend, Long Island, also known as Johannes Gerritsen's Mill and the Whitney mill, derived its name from a 1750s Dutch miller in the area of Marine park, Brooklyn. The mill was situated near what is now known as Garritson's Creek and Mill Pond, formerly referred to as the Strome Kil. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The creek's name comes from a historic grist mill built on the creek's shore in the 17th century. [9] The mill, a tide mill, the first to be built in North America, was built when the area was colonized by the Dutch. [6]: 212 [10] The mill remained in use for hundreds of years, until 1890. There were early proponents of preserving heritage ...
Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill (/ v æ n ˈ w aɪ k / van WYKE) 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 since the early 19th century. The property also includes the earthen mill dam with sluice ...
Woodbridge Tide Mill This page was last edited on 15 September 2015, at 14:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
A tide mill or tidal mill is a type of watermill which relies on tidal power, the rise and fall of the tides. Tide Mill or similar may also refer to: Tidemill, Gloucester County, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, USA; Tide Mills, East Sussex, England, UK; a derelict village