This list of Long Islands watermills comprises a selection of European watermills spanning the period from the Dutch colony of Neiuw Amsterdam to the English settlement of the North fork, from 1640 to 1900 AD.
A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir.
As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one-way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall.
[3] Tide mills are usually situated in river estuaries, away from the effects of waves but close enough to the sea to have a reasonable tidal range.
Cultures that built such mills have existed since the Middle Ages, and some may date back to the Roman period.
Swan River Mill, Patchogue
Freeke's Mills with Yellow Mills in the Distance, burnt on the 27th of Aug. 1776 while the Americans were retreating across Gowanus Creek (NYPL b12610187-423823)
Map of the 3rd ward
first tide-mill in North America
Dutch Kills eastern millstone jeh
Bowery Bay seen in 1989, with the wreckage of
USAir Flight 5050
in the foreground.
Vanderveer Grist Mill
Grist Mill
Crop of Higgingson map of Kings and Queens showing mills along Mill River in Hempstead
Jesse Carll Shipyard by Edward Lange (1882).
Remsen family is buried in Prospect Cemetery
Duryea's Creek Grist Mill
Alley Pond Grist Mill
Hook Creek Saw Mill
Simonson Creek, Idlewild Park, Brookville Boulevard, Brookville, Queens.
Thurston Hollow looking downstream
Simonson Creek, Idlewild Park, Brookville Boulevard, Brookville, Queens.
Saddle Rock Grist Mill
Thompson Saw Mill
Long Island Queens
A Manhasset BayWalk sign at the North Hempstead Town Dock in Port Washington, NY on August 10, 2022.
A gristmill on a creek
Corn Starch works, Glen Cove, L.I.
Hempstead, Town of Hempstead, Queens Co. L.I. NYPL1527304
Hempstead, Town of Hempstead, Queens Co. L.I. NYPL1527304
Haviland-Davison Grist Mill, as seen in November 2014.
Roslyn Grist Mill 20191030 03
Meadow Brook papermill
Stony Brook Grist Mill
EXTERIOR, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Lefferts Tide Mill, Huntington Harbor, Southdown Road, Huntington, Suffolk County, NY HAER NY,52-LOHA,2-2
