The Van-Wyck Lefferts Tide Mill, located in Lloyd Harbor, NY, is considered one of the best preserved eighteenth century tide mills in the United States and is one of only ten surviving examples of tide mills in the northeast from Virginia to Maine.  The matching grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation in the amount of $97,137.50 will help to ensure the continued preservation of this remarkable structure, which was built in 1797 and continued to serve local farmers for the next three quarters of a century.  The mill building is a three and one-half story gable roofed, timber frame wood structure located on a 400’ long earthen dam, also built in the 1790s.  The grant will fund restoration of the dam, installation of a new roof, and structural repairs to the interior.