Orient windmills - Wikipedia
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.
List of windmills in New York - Wikipedia
Hook Windmill, East Hampton (1806): Erected in 1806, Hook Windmill in East Hampton stands as an architectural gem, representing the historical significance of windmills in the area. Completely rebuilt, in 2018 20 men aided in getting it up and running.
Crazy Facts and Historical Photos of Windmills on Long Island
2020年6月26日 · Back in the day, windmills were workhorses of industry, converting the bay and ocean wind into energy to power the machinery that milled grain for Colonial-era Long Islander farmers. The surviving...
Crazy Facts and Historical Photos of Windmills on Long Island
The surviving windmills on Long Island are said to all be smock mills, a specific type of windmill, generally hexagonal or octagonal buildings with a rotating cap.
ON NORTH FORK, THE WINDMILLS WHIRL ANEW - The New York Times
1985年12月15日 · In East Marion, Mary Anna Muir said she had decided to renovate the old windmill on her property on Gardiners Bay after lugging water from the firehouse when the area lost power for a week after...
The Hamptons' 11 Historic Windmills Were Built from …
2019年4月19日 · None survived the difficult East End weather for long. So what happened beginning in 1795? Well, new windmills were built with their gears enclosed inside six-sided tapering wood-shingled walls in the shape of farmer’s …
The Windmills of Eastern Long Island - The New York Times
1987年7月17日 · All 11 were built between 1795 and 1820 and are called smock mills, because they supposedly look like someone wearing a smock. Long in Use in Europe.
Windmills of Long Island
When Rex Wailes presented his paper on the Windmills of Long Island at the Science Museum on 25th April 1935, he listed 11 surviving windmills, all smock mills in the east of the Island.
Sights from the Road: 4 Long Island Windmills
2010年4月28日 · Long Island is home to several notable, historical windmills. Most of the mills are in the smock style and reside on the eastern end of the island. While going through some of the photos I’ve collected in my travels, I did a little digging to find out about their history.
THE WINDMILLS - Home Sweet Home Museum
The owners of a post mill on the north end of the town commissioned Nathaniel Dominy V to build a new smock mill with two pairs of millstones. The mill was built in 1806 and incorporated the main post of the 1736 mill.