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NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM
For Office Use Only--Site Identifier
Project Identifier Historic Structurss Survey
Your Name for TOWn of Sou~ho£d Phone
Address ToWn Hallr Ma,in Road
' Southold L.I.,, N.Y
· zip 11971' - --.
Organiza¥ion (if any) ~DUthold Town Community Development Office
Date
1. Site Identifier(s)
2. County Suffolk
Tide Mill~ Goldsmith Inlet, peconic.
One of following: City
Township
Incorporated Village
Unincorporated Village or
Hamlet Peconic
3. Present Owner -UnknoWn
Address
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Site DeScription
Structure/site
Superstructure:
(check all appropriate categories):
complete' part~al collapsed 'not ev~d~nt_~_
Foundation: above below (grbund level) not evident x
Structural subdi~sions ~parent __.Only surface traces ~-~sible
Buried traces detected
~-~st construction materials (be as specific as possible):
Be
Grounds
Under cultivation Sustaining erosion Woodland __Upland
---Never cultivated Previously cultivated ~Floodplain __Pastureland
Soil Drainage: excellent good fair poor
Slope: flat gentle moderate steep
Distance to nearest water from structure (--~pprox.)~now oov.ere~.
Elevation: ~$',~ ~i~'%ater.
Site Investigation (append additional
Surface--date(s)
Site Map (Submit with form*)
---Collection
Subsurface--date(s)
Testing: shovel__coring__other
no. of units
sheets, if necessary):
unit size
(Submit plan of units with form*)
Excavation: unit size no. of units
(Submit plan of units with form*)
* Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible
Investigator ~$~ none known
Manuscript or published report(s) (reference fully):
Present repository of materials Millstone at Southold Historical Society
Page 2
PM, 42
Site inventory:
a~ date constructed or occupation period 1840-1906
b. previous owners, if know~in 1838 Isaac Sweezy was one of the
)80 subscribers,. John C. Appleby was
c. modifications, if known %the first' m'ille~;~ Gilbert Terry the last
0onstructed as a tide mill. later it was wind and tide.
(append additional sheets, if necessary)
7. Site doc~umentatioD
a.
(append additional sheets, if necessary):
Historic map raferen~es (Library of
1) Name C__ha~Date ~858 Source'~on~ress
Present location of original, if known
Beers,Comstock, Library of
2) Name Cline. Date 1873 Source
Present location of original, if known
3) Hyde & Co.~ap o~ Long Island. Brooklyn 1897
Representation in existing photography ~,~;,~
1) Photo date _~ 1895 Where located ( ............ ~2~e )
2) Photo date c. ~ Where located ~Frederick Ru~5~' )
~Island T6day.1909.P.208
Prlmary and secondary source documentation (reference fully)
R.C. Newell. RoseR~membevs. 1976. Pages 41 & 45.
Guide to Historic Marker~. South01d'Historical ~ociety. 1960.
.P. 52.
~arren Hall. PaEans , ~°u~itans and Patriots· 1975. P·59 (cont.)
ersons with memory or sl~e:
1) Name Address '
2) Name Address
List of material remains other than those used in construction
as specific as possible in identifying object and material):
~illstone at Southold Historical Society.
(be
~f prehistoric materials are eviderrt, check here and
prehistoric site form.
9. Map References:
fill out
10.
Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identifies
by source and date. Keep this submission to 8½"xll",
if feasible.
USGS 7½ Minute Series Quad. Name Southold Quadrangle.
For Office Use Only--UTM Coordinates
Photography (optional for environmental impact survey):
Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print(s) showing the current
state of the site. Provide a label for the print(s) on a separate
sheet.
Form prepared by Rosemary Sky. Moritt, research assistant
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(continued),
7c. SITE DOCUMM, NTATION
Pencil drawing. "Mill at Goldsmith's Inlet, L.I."
Initialed lower right "R.B., 1885".(Reynolds Beal
~1867-1951), on paper size 6½"x 9".
Collections The Old Print Shop, N.Y.C.
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~w York Times.
1727/1986
Vol. XLV/4
74 THE OLD PRINT SHOP. 150 LEXINGTON AVE, NEW YORK NY 10016
3. PENCIL DRAWING, "DOck at Port Washington. Cow Bay, L I" In,t,aleo
Iowerr~gr~t,"R 8,June29.1887"Papers~zeSz 10" $50000
'Suffolk County, Long Island
_~n ~arly Photographs
1867-1951
Frederick S. Lightfoot
Linda B. Nartin
Bette S. Weidman
1984
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54. Peconic Mill, ca. 1895. Mills that harnessed the tides of the sea for
power had to be bruit as part of a dam. usually at the mouth of a creek. The sea
water would be atlowed to enter the creek through a gate m he dam until high
mie. Then the gate was closed. As the tide fell outstde the dam. there would
be a difference of level between the water reside the dam and that outside.
Ttus head of water was used to turn the mill wheel.
Since the toy, ms controlled the creeks, the building of a mill and dam
required official approval, which often mvolved a grant of land alongside the
dam s~te and someumes town involvement tn building the dam. The arrange-
ment was much h:. a modem francinse for a uulltv, as condittons and rates for
the imller's set,act, could be stipulated, inclu~ling days in the week for
operation and a reqmrement for free g~nding for nfmsters.
This umgue mill operated on a stream that entered the sound at Peconic. It
was a conventional tide mtn until its owners dectded to add rand power to
null was able to handle up to 30t) bushels of gram a day. Because the need for
the null decreased as fewer farmers grew eram on the North Fork. the ~md
The channel for the tidal wheel, known as th~ gutter, was allowed to till up
v. ath sand. seaweed and mussels. Abandoned. the troll slowly broke apart.
tLigh(tbot Collection. ~ '
55. Great Tidal Mill. Huntington. ca. 1905. Many tidal mills had docks
so that sailing vessels could deliver qram and take away ~our. The huge null at
Huntmg~on had this ieature. It was built in 1752 by Zophar Platt and operated
harbor. The mill bufldmg was destro5 ed bt' fire m 1930. The nearby h6me
the miller sttll stands on West Shore Roa~i. The Surfs/de Deilcate~sen m
stands on the site of the mall; part of the pond has been filled to make
baseball diamond. ILl.,.qttlbot Collecuon. ~
56.3,1i11. Cold Spring Harbor. ca. 1910. This unusual mill was built
179! by Hewlett. Jones and Company. [t was not a ttdal mill. but received ~
water through the quarter-mile flume from an elevated freshwater pond sou
of the harbor. Bemre 1700. there were 25 or more water nulls in Nassau a;
prmSded farm and pasmreland for the irdler's use.
The mill m the photograph originally had a large wheel, but silting ot tt
harbor made it difficult to keep the wheel free. To solve tkis problem.
turbme was placed in the troll, provading power mr the gnnding of 200 bushe
of wheat a week. The dock was one oi the mare landing places tot gre
quantiues of manure shipped from New York's stables and streets aboat
sloops or schooners and intended as fertilizer for Long Island farms. The m
burned down tn 1921. iLtght!oot Collection. i
57. Mill. Southaven. ca. 1910. The few well-settled areas in the center,
the tsland, such as Yaphank. clustered around small streams, some rathe
harnessed to drive mills. Ttus rdill was bruit tn 17.15, [ts millpond is the p[ac
~ here Darnel Webster caught the famous 14t ;-pound trout which he carrie
on the afternoon sta~e to New York: it was served for dinner at Delmonico
PECONIC
Head of Richmond', Creek. Peconic
The Scallop Fleet, Peco~ic Bay
iii,,,
Frederick Ruth~r. LonM Island Today. 1909