[PDF] Windmills And Water Mills Of Long Island eBook

Author : Anne Frances Pulling
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738502885

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Windmills and water mills are truly the wonders of an earlier era, the wooden technology of yesteryear. To us, they may be graceful and charming relics. To the colonists, however, they were a vital necessity. Colonial craftsmen constructed them to mill grain, saw wood, pump water, and do various other jobs. Furthermore, the mill was the gathering place for the villagers. While they waited for their grain to be milled, the villagers exchanged news and gossip and stories. Millers were well respected not only for their mill's output but also for their own weather forecasts, knowledge of engines and machines, and, of course, up-to-date news. Long Island is an ideal place for catching the steady wind from the ocean and bays: 125 miles long, narrow--only 20 miles across at its widest, and relatively flat. Thus, many windmills were built here and still exist here, particularly at the island's east end. As a matter of fact, the south fork of eastern Long Island contains the greatest number of surviving windmills in the United States. Before 1700, Long Island also had many water mills, some of them powered by the tide.

Author : American Institute of Architects
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486269467

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The most comprehensive, well-researched and generously illustrated volume of its kind on the subject, bringing over three centuries of Long Island’s great architectural heritage to life. Over 240 photographs, complete with authoritative, extensively detailed captions, present a wide range of structures—from simple lean-tos to distinguished contemporary buildings by such architects as Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, David L. Finci and others.

Author : Lucy D. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813547342

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From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, Architecture Walks guides readers on a tour of nearly one hundred inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around New York and the surrounding area, including Connecticut, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. This book also incorporates descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, and forty photos.

Author : John Ling
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1445664348

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Explore a fascinating illustrated in-depth study of Suffolk's windmills and watermills, past and present.

Author : Jim Marquardt
Publisher : UNET 2 Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0974020192

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Under the title LOOKING BACK in a series of columns over many years,Jim Marquardt has delved into the colorful history of Sag Harbor, from the colonists who came ashore at Conscience Point in 1645 to the intrepid whaling captains who ventured into unknown Arctic waters. Did you know that at one time whaling was the third largest industry in the United States? Or that a few Sag Harbor sailors jumped ship and became kings of South Seas islands? Or that Sag Harbor wives sometimes sailed with their husbands on three­and four-year voyages? Here are the stories of the Native Americans who lived here long before the colonists, the friendship of Chief Wyandanch and Lion Gardiner, the first Custom House established in our young country, the Black sailors who crewed the whale ships, saboteurs who landed in Amagansett in WW 11, mutinies, shipwrecks, steamboats, and people like John Steinbeck who wrote that Sag Harbor made him happy.This is a rich collection of more than 70 stories by a writer who has dug deeply to tell us why so many people visit, linger in, and love Sag Harbor.