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18th-century Roslyn Grist Mill to be restored

Little of the original 3-century-old Roslyn Grist Mill remains - just the hand-hewn beams holding up the floors and some millstones.

The rest of the structure on Old Northern Boulevard consists of dilapidated attempts to keep the mill from collapsing into Hempstead Harbor: concrete walls designed to look like clapboard and crumbling asphalt shingles on the roof.

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