National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed pro
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Logo used for the NRHP.
East Hampton (village), New York
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The Village of East Hampton is a village in the town of East Hampton, New York, United States. It is located in Suffolk County, on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, the population was 1,083 at the time of the 2010 census,251 less than in the year 2000. It is a center of the resort and upscale locality at the East End of Long Island known as The Hamptons and is generally considered one of the areas two most prestigious communities. Founded in 1648 by Puritan farmers who worshiped as Presbyterians, the village of Easthampton was a community with some fishing and whaling. Whales that washed up on the beach were butchered and whales were hunted offshore with rowboats sometimes manned by Montauk Indians, due to no good harbor in East Hampton, however, it was Sag Harbor which became a whaling center which sent ships to the Pacific. It was then sold for about £30 to settlers, some from Lynn and Salem, Massachusetts, the original name for the village was Maidstone, from a village in Kent
New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the no
Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican R
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
Multiple Property Submission
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed pro
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Logo used for the NRHP.
Windmill
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A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Centuries ago, windmills usually were used to mill grain, pump water, thus they often were gristmills, windpumps, or both. The majority of modern windmills take the form of wind turbines used to generate electricity, the windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the first century is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine. Another early example of a wheel was the prayer wheel. It has been claimed that the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi planned to use wind power for his ambitious project in the seventeenth century BCE. The first practical windmills had sails that rotated in a horizontal plane, according to Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, these panemone windmills were invented in eastern Persia as recorded by the Persian geographer Estakhri in the ninth century. The authenticity of an anecdote of a windmill involving the second caliph U
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Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill
Long Island, New York
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Long Island is an island located just off the northeast coast of the United States and a region within the U. S. state of New York. Stretching east-northeast from New York Harbor into the Atlantic Ocean, the island comprises four counties, Kings and Queens to the west, then Nassau, more generally, Long Island may also refer collectively both to the main Island as well as its nearby, surrounding outer barrier islands. North of the island is the Long Island Sound, across from which lie the states of Connecticut, across the Sound, to the northwest, lies Westchester County on mainland New York. To the west, Long Island is separated from the Bronx and the island of Manhattan by the East River. To the extreme southwest, it is separated from the New York City borough of Staten Island and the U. S. state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, to the east lie Block Island and numerous smaller islands. Its population density is 5,595.1 inhabitants per square mile, Long Island is cultu
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National Park Service
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It was created on August 25,1916, by Congress through the National Park Service Organic Act and is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. As of 2014, the NPS employs 21,651 employees who oversee 417 units, the National Park Service celebrated its centennial in 2016. National parks and national monuments in the United States were originally individually managed under the auspices of the Department of the Interior, the movement for an independent agency to oversee these federal lands was spearheaded by business magnate and conservationist Stephen Mather, as well as J. Horace McFarland. With the help of journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather ran a publicity campaign for the Department of the Interior and they wrote numerous articles that praised the scenic and historic qualities of the parks and their possibilities for educational, inspirational, and recreational benefits. This campaign resulted in the creation of a National Park Service, Mather became the first direc
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In 1916, a portfolio of nine major parks was published to generate interest. Printed on each brochure was a map showing the parks and principal railroad connections.
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National Park Service Arrowhead
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In 1934, a series of ten postage stamps were issued to commemorate the reorganization and expansion of the National Park Service.
Heritage Documentation Programs
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These programs were established to document historic places in the United States. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports, in 1933, NPS established the Historic American Buildings Survey following a proposal by Charles E. Peterson, a young landscape architect in the agency. It was founded as a constructive program for architects, draftsmen. Guided by field instructions from Washington, D. C. the first HABS recorders were tasked with documenting a representative sampling of Americas architectural heritage, by creating an archive of historic architecture, HABS provided a database of primary source material and documentation for the then-fledgling historic preservation movement. Earlier private projects included the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, notable HABS photographers include Jack Boucher, who worked for the project for over 40 years. The Historic American Engineering Record program was founded on January 10,1969, by NPS, HAER d
Contributing property
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Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts, the first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts was in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a district fall into one of two types of property, contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th Century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a medical clinic. The contributing properties are key to a districts historic associations, historic architectural qualities. A property can change from contributing to non-contributing and vice versa if significant alterations take place, the ordinance declared that buildings in the district could not ha
Historic districts in the United States
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Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided into two categories, contributing and non-contributing. Districts greatly vary in size, some have hundreds of structures, the U. S. federal government designates historic districts through the United States Department of Interior under the auspices of the National Park Service. Federally designated historic districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, state-level historic districts may follow similar criteria or may require adherence to certain historic rehabilitation standards. Local historic district designation offers, by far, the most legal protection for historic properties because most land use decisions are made at the local level, local districts are generally administered by the county or municipal government. The first U. S. historic district was established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931, Charleston city government designated an Old and Historic District by lo
List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
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This is a list of National Historic Landmarks and comparable other historic sites designated by the U. S. government in the U. S. state of New York. There are 262 NHLs in New York state, which is more than 10 percent of all the NHLs nationwide, all of these historic landmarks are covered in this list. There are 139 NHLs in upstate New York,13 on Long Island, three counties have ten or more NHLs, New York County has 86, Westchester County, just north of NYC, has 18, and Erie County in western New York has 10. Twelve other counties have five to nine NHLs, eight have three or four,27 counties have one or two, and the twelve of the states 62 counties have none. The first New York NHLs were eight designated on October 9,1960, the NHLs and other landmarks outside of NYC are listed below, the NHLs in NYC are in this companion article. Seven NHL sites are among the 20 National Park System historic areas in New York state, the other 13 National Park Service areas are also historic landmark site
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Slabsides, nature retreat of John Burroughs
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New York Public Library, 42nd St., NYC
List of windmills in the United States
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This is a list of traditional windmills in the United States. Known building dates are in bold text, non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places, unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website
Golden Gate Park windmills
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There are two functioning windmills on the western edge of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The northern Dutch Windmill was completed in 1903, and the southern Murphy Windmill was completed in 1908, the Dutch Mill was placed on the San Francisco Designated Landmark list December 6,1981, and the Murphy Mill was added July 2,2000. In the 1870s and 1880s, Golden Gate Park was planted on sand dunes, the Dutch Mill was completed one year later and pumped 30,000 gallons per hour. Five years later, the Murphy Mill pumped an additional 40,000 gallons per hour to the park, electric water pumps replaced the need for windmills in 1913, and the two mills fell into disrepair. By the 1950s, the mills were in a state of ruin, in 1964, the San Francisco Citizens Commission for the Restoration of the Golden Gate Park Windmills was formed and led by Eleanor Rossi Crabtree, daughter of former San Francisco mayor Angelo Rossi. The Dutch Mill was restored in 1981, the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip G
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Solvang, California
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Solvang is a city in Santa Barbara County, California. It is located in the Santa Ynez Valley, the population was 5,245 at the 2010 census, down from 5,332 at the 2000 census. Solvang was incorporated as a city on May 1,1985, the city is home to a number of bakeries, restaurants, and merchants offering a taste of Denmark in California. The architecture of many of the façades and buildings reflects traditional Danish style, there is a copy of the famous Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen, as well as one featuring the bust of famed Danish fable writer Hans Christian Andersen. A replica of Copenhagens Round Tower or Rundetårn in the scale 1,3 was finished in 1991, Mission Santa Inés, one of the California missions, is located near the center of the town, at the junction of State Route 246 and Alisal Road. Solvang is located at 34°35′38″N 120°8′23″W, at an elevation of 505 ft, it lies in the Santa Ynez Valley some 46 miles north-west of Santa Barbara and about 15 miles north of the Paci
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Danish-styled Solvang, California
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Bronson Windmill
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The Bronson Windmill is an historic windmill at 3015 Bronson Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is a wood frame structure 80 feet high, with a large wooden water tank in its interior. It was built in 1893-94 for Frederic Bronson to provide water for use on his dairy farm. The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut Historic American Buildings Survey No. CT-325, Frederic Bronson Windmill,3015 Bronson Road, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT,11 photos,2 measured drawings,2 data pages,1 photo caption page
De Immigrant
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De Immigrant is a windmill located in Fulton, Illinois, built on a flood-control dike on the Mississippi River. Two months later, construction began with thirty tons of wood. The construction took place in phases, and the tower, cap, sails, on May 5,2001, De Immigrant officially began grinding wheat, buckwheat, rye, and cornmeal. City of Fulton, De Immigrant Windmill
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De Immigrant in August 2009
Fabyan Windmill
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The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Kane County, Illinois, just north of Batavia, Illinois, off Illinois Route 25. The five-story wooden smock mill with a stage, which stands 68 feet tall, sits upon the estate of Colonel George Fabyan. In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dutch Mill. The following year, the windmill was selected to be on a U. S. postage stamp and it originally operated as a custom grinding mill. By the early 20th century, the windmill had fallen into a state of disrepair, in 1914, George Fabyan purchased the disused windmill for approximately $8,000 from Mrs. Fred Runge. He then had it moved to its present location in Geneva Township on the east side of the Fox River, Fabyan spent an estimated $75,000 to have it moved, reconstructed, and restored. The Edgar E. Belding Company of West Chicago was contracted by Fabyan to move the windmill from York Center and i
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Fabyan Windmill in June 2008
Peotone Mill
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The Peotone Mill, formerly known as the Rathje Mill, is located in the village of Peotone, Illinois, which is in Will County, Illinois, United States. The mill was donated to the Village of Peotone in the early 1980s, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as well as the Will County Register of Historic Places. Henry A. Rathje is credited with building the windmill, but it was his father, Frederick Rathje, with Christoph Elling, the warranty deed from July 3,1871 confirms this. An account of the Rathje family was contained in the 1900 Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County, according to it, Rathje married Wilhelmina Luhmann in 1874, Luhmann was an immigrant from Hanover, Germany. After marrying, Rathje entered the business during which time he acquired the windmill at Peotone. Henry Rathje is listed as the proprietor on a mill invoice, the structure was designed by Dutch millwrights. The design, which included the mills 60 foot tower, makes it t
Bailey Farm Windmill
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The Bailey Farm Windmill is an historic windmill on Maine State Route 16, north of the village of North Anson, Maine. Built in 1905, it is a distinctive local landmark, with an octagonal frame. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, the windmill is an octagonal wood-frame structure, resting on a concrete foundation, with a wooden shingled exterior and a copper-domed roof. Its base is flared, with the entrance projecting slightly on the west-facing facade, there are four small windows in the structure, all at different heights to provide light to the inside staircase. At the top of its interior is an area, which is surrounded on the outside by a broad gallery supported by sawn brackets. The dome is topped by a spire, on which are mounted the rotating mechanism, the wheel has retained its spokes, but no longer has paddles to catch the wind. This mechanism was originally connected to a shaft, now removed. The shaft was protected from the stairs by a tongue-and-
List of windmills in Massachusetts
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This is a list of traditional windmills in the American state of Massachusetts. Known building dates are in bold text, non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places, windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA, On Cape Publications
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Old Higgins Farm Windmill
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Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old Kings Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900, the windmill was moved a number of times the last from Ellis Landing in Brewster to its current location in 1974. In 1975 it was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places, the windmill was donated its then owner, Mrs. Samuel Nickerson, in memory of her husband, to the Brewster Historical Society which continues to maintain it at its current location. National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Brewster Historical Society Town of Brewester
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Old Higgins Farm Windmill
Chatham Windmill
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The Chatham Windmill is a historic windmill at Chase Park, Shattuck Place in Chatham, Massachusetts. The mill, built in 1797 by Benjamin Godfrey, was first used to grind corn and it was moved to its present location in 1955, the year it was given to the town. The methods used in its construction suggest that the builder was from the southeast of England, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Eastham Windmill
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The Eastham Windmill, located in Eastham, Massachusetts, is the oldest windmill on Cape Cod. It was constructed by Eastham resident Thomas Paine in Plymouth in 1680 and it was first moved to nearby Truro in 1770, then finally to Eastham in 1793. In 1808 the windmill was moved to its present location, near the Eastham Town Hall, Eastham Windmill, as part of the Eastham Center Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. A local festival, Eastham Windmill Weekend, has held on a yearly basis in Eastham since 1977. All of the funding was provided by business located within Eastham, the Eastham Windmill has been a long-standing icon to the local Boy Scouts & Cub Scouts Windmill Information at the Eastham Historical Society site Official site of Eastham Windmill Weekend
De Zwaan (windmill)
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De Zwaan is an authentic Dutch windmill in the city of Holland, Michigan. The windmills name is Dutch for The Swan or Graceful Bird and it is the only authentic, working Dutch windmill in the United States. De Zwaan is located in Windmill Island municipal park, De Zwaan was first was erected in Krommenie, Netherlands in 1761. In 1889, it was moved to Vinkel, Netherlands and reconstructed there, however, many of these monumental structures had suffered serious damage in World War II. As a result, the Dutch government had placed a ban on the sale of windmills outside the Netherlands, Wichers and his group were able to gain an exemption by selecting a heavily damaged mill known as De Zwaan. De Zwaan was at the center of a controversy, with three local agencies unable to determine the future of the damaged windmill, the Dutch government decided to sell it to Wichers for $2800, making De Zwaan the last windmill to leave the Netherlands. In October,1964, De Zwaan arrived aboard the Prins Wil
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One of the two grindstones from De Zwaan.
Seppman Mill
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The Seppman Mill is a former windmill in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States, now preserved in Minneopa State Park. It was built by Louis Seppmann, a German immigrant, between 1862 and 1864 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places, the sails and internal machinery have been removed. Seppmann was born in Westphalia, Germany in 1835 and emigrated to the United States at age 17 and he settled in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, five years later, in 1857. He made his living as a stonemason, in 1862 he used his earnings to begin constructing a wind-powered gristmill on his own land. Seppmann was only familiar with windmills from his homeland, but drew on his considerable natural talent for mechanics. Seppmann, with help from some fellow masons, built the first 10 feet of the walls before being interrupted by financial difficulties and he resumed work the next summer, joined now by neighbor Herman Hegley. Using a ramp and a wheelbarrow to convey material up the growing str
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Volendam Windmill
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Volendam Windmill is a smock mill located on Adamic Hill Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, United States. The windmill was designed and built in 1965 by Paul Jorgenson, the Volendam Windmill Museum is a working mill driven by wind, used for grinding raw grain into flour. The 60-foot structure is seven stories high with sail arms 68 feet from tip to tip, in 2007, two of the sail arms of the windmill were damaged in a windstorm. As of November 2010, the website shows that the museum is closed. Hunterdon Plateau Hunterdon County Museums - Volendam Windmill Museum Windmill may become townships at nj. com
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