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Silas B. Moore Gristmill

historic grist mill located at Ticonderoga, New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7514099 ↗
Source-derived summary

Silas B. Moore Gristmill is a historic grist mill located at Ticonderoga in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1879–80 and is a two-story, three-bay wood-frame commercial building with shiplap siding and Italianate style details. A two-story, rectangular addition completed about 1885 is attached to the rear of the main block.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1885, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Silas, Moore and Gristmill can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as historic grist mill located at Ticonderoga, New York, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7514099. Authority coordinates are 43.848, -73.428. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1885 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Silas B. Moore Gristmill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.