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NRHP listed in 1973, the windmill has been dismantled and moved to Conewango, New York. Bourne Windmill. [13] Oakdale: Tower: 1911: An American farm design tower windmill, demolished 2004-2005 Orient windmills: Orient: Smock: 1810: Moved to Glen Island 1898. See article for details: Orient Point Windmill: Sagamore Hill windpump windmill
New Amsterdam's windmills. In September 1609, Henry Hudson, accompanied by around 20 sailors, navigated the Halve Maen (Half Moon) into present-day New York Harbor. Tasked by the Dutch East India Company to discover a route to Asia, Hudson's journey instead led to the Dutch staking claim over an area they named Nieuw Nederland, encompassing ...
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 1922. The building was listed on the National ...
Old Mill Inn; Mattituck, NY-2. 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 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 mill operated into the 20th century; by 1912 it was grinding just corn and feed ...
"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 ...
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.
Good Ground Windmill. Good Ground Windmill (Shelter Island Mill I) was built in 1807 on the north end of Shelter Island, New York. It was worked as a gristmill on Shelter Island until 1860. [1] 1876 photograph by George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845-1887). Good Ground Mill, Southampton, Long Island, ca. 1872-1887.