Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Geib's Mill] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Simonson, Frederick M. |
Date |
ca. 1910 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print with color added; mounted on an off-white cardboard mount. View of the miller's house at Geib's Mill in Richmond, Staten Island. The building is a two-story wooden structure with a lean-to that appears to be falling down. A large tree is in bloom next to the house; a "NO / TRESPASSING" sign hangs on the tree. The print has been painted with green grass, blue sky, brown house and trees, and bright pink flowers on the tree. (Keywords: Early Twentieth Century, New York City, Rural) |
Print size |
4.875 x 7 |
Ownership and History |
The massive tidal gristmill at the head of the Fresh Kills near Richmond, Staten Island, was probably built about 1760. Known during the Revolution as Beadle's Mill, it was owned by a family named Crocheron from about 1800 to the early 1850s, when it was acquired by William Geib. Two Seaver brothers, Patrick and Lawrence, recent emigrants from Ireland, operated the mill for Geib from the early 1850s through the 1870s, when the building was sold to the Simonsons. The structure remained in use to the end of the century; it was destroyed in 1922. |
Earliest Date |
1908 |
Latest Date |
1912 |
Subjects |
Mills |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Geib, William |
Catalog Number |
PH01.0509 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, January 2018. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |