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Isaac Edge's windmill is a historic landmark that played an important role in the early industrial development of Jersey City, New Jersey. Isaac Edge , a British immigrant, built the windmill in 1806 on the shore of the Hudson River, the Great Western Mill stones imported from England found their first home in Brooklyn Heights .
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
The De Meyer Windmill was located north of "Katie Mut" and was granted on September 29, 1677, to Nicholas De Mayer, who had been elected mayor of New York the previous year. The land for the windmill was near the Collect or Fresh Water Pond, in an area that is now bounded by Baxter, White, Elm, Duane, and Park Streets and called Foley Square ...
In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer [ 1 ] ).
Knollcrest is known for its Dutch-style windmill. It was constructed in 1936 as a functional water pump. The structure is 80 feet tall and houses a 3,000 gallon copper water tank. The windmill currently serves as the main office for the community. [3] It was commissioned by the Homelander Company and was designed by Charles A. Federer. [4]
The final-hurdle council vote Thursday was years in the making, notably after plans for a 34-story building with 1,578 units — about half of those being affordable — at the Crown Heights site ...
Good Ground Windmill map-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]
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