Good Ground Windmill

[1]The Good Ground mill site at 7 W. Montauk Highway was owned in the 1860s by Martin Van Buren Squires.

He purchased the grist mill on Shelter Island, and had it transported by barge to the Red Creek area, and then hauled to the elevated land on the corner of Montauk Highway and Ponquogue Avenue.

[2] The mill was made of hand-hewn oak logs and stood forty feet high.

[4] It remained in operation till around 1880, when an original founder of the Southampton summer colony, Charles Wyllys Betts, determined that the Good Ground mill would make the perfect addition to his gambrel-roofed, gable-windowed oceanside cottage on Gin Lane.

To preserve the mill structure, Wyllys Betts, of Meadow Lane, Southampton, NY, purchased and moved it to his property in 1880,[5] where it formed the basis of a weathered cape cottage with a house built around the mill.