Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond

Sloat 's Dam and Mill Pond is an overflow weir between Waldron Terrace and Ballard Avenue in Sloatsburg, New York in the United States. The 60 m long weir dams the Ramapo River to a millpond.

It was built in 1792 by Isaac Sloat and was the first of three impoundments on the river in what is now Rockland County, with which water mills operated. He is at the present time the only one of which is still largely intact, although the mill is no longer in operation since a fire in the mid-20th century. The facility was registered with some associated buildings in 2000 in the National Register of Historic Places.

Description

The dam, the mill pond and the associated buildings are located on a roughly six-acre, rectangular site, owned by the County today. Most of it is covered by the mill pond. The weir is located just west of Waldron Terrace, is about 60 m long, at the highest point 1.1 meters high and has approximately this size. Today, the original masonry of concrete is covered. At the west of the dam is located at the end of a mill-race a stone sluice gate. The mill pond itself is a popular place with locals for fishing.

At the southwest corner of the plot are some remaining goalposts of the Brown Estate, to which the mill was one of the early 20th century. These are just east of the Metro-North station Sloatsburg next to a substation. Since these are the striking features of the ensemble, here the billboard of the National Park Service is attached. The posts have no direct connection with the mill plant are still considered a contributing components, since their age and appearance of the stonework matches the contemporary renovations of Mühlanlagenbauwerke. Of the actual buildings of the mill is little left, most of it was razed in the 1960s and what is left is not considered as contributing.

History

Isaac Sloat, son of settler William Sloat Built in 1792, the weir of stones in the Ramapo River to power a sawmill and a tannery. Two other Müller built above and below two other dams. Isaac 's son Jacob Sloats reinforced the dam with concrete in 1815, before he expanded the mill for spinning.

The company Sloats prospered, built in later decades by the nearby New York and Erie Railroad further boosted, so he enlarged the mill several times before it was retired in 1851. The Sloatsburg Manufacturing Company, which took over the business from him, extended again in 1857, but went in 1878 as a late consequence of the panic of 1873 broke. A new owner took over the facility four years later and began the production of silk. In 1900 the mill was part of Cappamore, the country estate of Nicholas Brown. The stone gate posts were built at this time. A few years later destroyed the flood of 1903, the other two dams and damaged the plants Sloat 's Mill so severe that the operation had to be stopped.

The Ramapo Piece and Dye Works took over the facility in 1907 and conducted the first renovations for nearly a century. The company took a stone Fluttor instead of the wooden building, of similar masonry as it was used in the goal post. Apparently, the dam was also increased at this time.

1931 was the company that is now the name of Ramapo Finishing Company wore tear off the older buildings of the factory. The rest of the plant was operated until a fire in 1955 on. The following year, Browns Manor Cappamore was demolished during the construction of the New York State thruways and the remaining buildings of the mill in 1966 leveled for a building that was never carried out. The mill race was filled after a man was drowned in it.

The land was purchased with some other property on the river end of the 20th century by the County Administration. The County and the Sloatsburg Historical Society planned to make it the 45 -acre Eleanor Burlingham Memorial Park.