17th century Connecticut, so sorry, by residents of Seatauket, many
settlers originally from the Charles River, Massachusetts's,
complained about not having a mill and the cost to grind grain in
Connecticut was 1/6 (one-sixth)  of the produce which I think did not
included transportation across the Long Island Sound about the widest
point also in it a good 20 nautical miles.

George Myers


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:49:08 -0400, George Myers
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wonder if there are any sources for the early "tidal mills" I've
> heard about, looked sort of for, read about (i.e., replaced by a wind
> mill in New Amsterdam (?), a mill cited in 18th century Bridgeport, as
> being too expensive for Long Islanders then for awhile under
> Connecticut jurisdiction who shipped there "corn" (then also a British
> generic term for grain), not known if it was wind or tidal, using a
> fall of water impounded at high tide) or if you stop by the operating
> one in Stony Brook, NY, water driven, you can read the sign for the
> "Adam Smith" mill which was probably freshwater driven, now under
> water behind the small dam the road forms (interesting, night herons
> and cormorants have taken up there) but who knows? Maybe it was a
> tidal mill first. I seem to remember a map showing many of them but as
> sites they haven't been in anything I've seen. Anyone know about them
> early ones?
>
> (There's some interesting tidal power generating experiment from
> Australia being installed off the coast of Rhode Island, which has the
> "perfect" parameters for its operation, about 40' by 100' produces
> electricity for 300 homes using a generator in a large venturi for air
> displaced in the rise and fall of tide).
>