Lefferts Tide Mill & Preserve

Thank you to Coneys Marine for delivering the piano as we are gearing up for this weekend's Grist for the Mill with Risa Finkel!!!

Not our usual launching…Piano Delivery! On a Thursday in early June, the Coneys Marine barge delivered a pi...

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Join us as we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the United States, with a special performance by Risa Finkel at the Lefferts Tide Mill!

Visit: https://leffertstidemill.org/new-page-57

Join us next week as we present The Mills of Huntington at 7pm at the Elwood Public Library. It is free!

Join us as we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the United States, with a special performance by Risa Finkel at the Lefferts Tide Mill!

Visit: https://leffertstidemill.org/new-page-57

The Lefferts Tide Mill & Preserve had the privilege to give a presentation at the Tide Mill Institute Conference on Saturday in Fairfield, CT. Robert Hughes and Toby Kissam gave a lecture on "Restoring and Preserving the Lefferts Tide Mill".

We also heard presentations on:

Tide Mills of Eastern Long Island by Amy Folk, Southold Town Historian

A Hi-Tech Look at a 250-Year Old Tide Mill by Mark Borton, independent researcher and member of TMI Leadership Committee

Evaluating the Community Scale Tidal Energy Resource of Maine by David Hoyle, member of TMI Leadership Committee and TMI’s representative at the National Hydropower Association and the Marine Energy Council

Fairfield’s Historic Tide Mills by Walter Matis, Program and Volunteer Coordinator, Fairfield Museum and History Center

After the talks, a car caravan tour of Fairfield’s tide mill sites was led by Walter Matis.

The Tide Mill in the morning.... Beautiful!

As part of the conference, Robert Hughes, Toby Kissam, and Kurt Dietrich will talk about the Lefferts Tide Mill. Over the centuries, there were numerous mills in the Town of Huntington on the north shore of Long Island, including four tide mills. This presentation will focus on the Lefferts Tide Mill, which is the last remaining mill in Huntington and which utilized the innovations of the third patent issued by the United States. The presentation will also address the challenges of maintaining a 240 year old earthen dam in the face of rising sea levels.

Enjoy the talks about the mills on Long Island Sound and see the Connecticut mills that are still standing as you venture from Fairfield Museum and History Center.

https://www.tidemillinstitute.org/tide-mill-conference-april-25-2026/

Learn about the history of the 18th and 19th-century Mills in Huntington at your local library! Get a stamp on your Suffolk County's 250th anniversary book!

Under the roof, we have a mix of original 1794 rafters and non-historic ones; we replaced them with period-correct timbers. The restoration was completed with some of the money you donated! Thank you!

In 1798, the Van Wyck family sold a half-interest in the mill to the Lefferts brothers from Cold Spring Harbor, who operated the mill. By the middle of the 19th century, Jarvis Lefferts, a son of one of the brothers, became the sole owner and operator of the mill until he died in 1882.

Photo of Jarvis Lefferts.