Rex Wailes Collection. The Windmills of Long Island Part 2
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2022 August |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | Hay Ground Mill stands north of the Montauk Highway between Water Mill and Bridgehampton; it was built in 1801 and was last worked in 1919. Although the sails and fan blades were blown off in a storm in 1932, they have been repaired. And the mill, still containing much of its original machinery, is used as a tea-room. Montauk Point Mill was built in 1763 at Southampton where it stood close to the Mill Hill Mill. It was moved to Wain Scott, where it served as a public library, and from there to its present site, where it is joined to a house. Shelter Island Mill was built in 1810 at Southold by Nathaniel Dominy Junr and others for Moses Cleaveland, using some parts of a previous mill, at a cost for labor of US$111.00…Read more |
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