History of Hudson County and of the old village of Bergen : being a brief account of the foundation and growth of what is now Jersey City and of the many advantages now offered the inhabitants thereof in the newly constructed building of the Trust Company of New Jersey . tgomery Streets,(at that time the river bank), at a point now occupiedby the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, Isaac Edge in1815 built a windmill, which was taken down in 1839and removed to Long Island. In 1856 Lewis of Orient, Long Island, wrote in relation toit : Your old windmill though demolished is not defunct. It w
History of Hudson County and of the old village of Bergen : being a brief account of the foundation and growth of what is now Jersey City and of the many advantages now offered the inhabitants thereof in the newly constructed building of the Trust Company of New Jersey . tgomery Streets,(at that time the river bank), at a point now occupiedby the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, Isaac Edge in1815 built a windmill, which was taken down in 1839and removed to Long Island. In 1856 Lewis of Orient, Long Island, wrote in relation toit : Your old windmill though demolished is not defunct. It was placed on board of vessels and con-veyed around the eastern extremity of the NorthBranch of Long Island into Town Harbor, and from thence taken to Mill Hillin the town of Southold, inSuffolk County, where itwas again placed upon itspins, as natural as life. We live in a migratoryage, but a migratory wind-mill, even at this day, maybe considered a old mill is now in anexcellent state of preserva-tion, notwithstanding itsforty years wear and tear,and one h u n d r e d andtwenty-five miles of travel,and I venture to say would stand as severe a tilt with Don Quixote as any mill I ever came in contactwith. A short distance south of the Old Mill, between. KlXiK S WINDMILL. OLD BERGEN. 255 York and Grand Streets, and about one hundred feeteast of Green, was the ferry landing, alluded to else-where. April 1st, 1839, this was moved to the cornerof Hudson and Montgomery Streets, and at the timeof the extension of Exchange Place, was changed toits present location. The ferry facilities at first consisted of a gallowsframe, painted green, supporting iron pulleys, overwhich a chain was passed, one end of which was at-tached to the floating bridge, while to the other endbalancing weights were fastened, so that the bridgecould accommodate itself to the rise and fall of the tides,thus facilitating the loading or unloading of the boats. The row boats, and periaguas or sail boats
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