The sound of water tumbling over an 18th-century mill wheel could almost drown out the disbelief: a 2,150-acre horse farm in upstate Columbia County has just hit the market for a stratospheric $90 million.

The property — known as Mill Farm — sprawls across meadows, barns and waterfalls in the hamlet of Ancramdale, roughly a 100 miles north of Manhattan.

Its owner, former Bear Stearns financier Daniel Slott, pieced it together over 43 years.

“What would be great for the community is if it were kept as a whole,” he told the Wall Street Journal , which first reported on the listing.

To date, the record residential sale in Dutchess or Columbia counties is $18.5 million.

The number alone dwarfs anything the Hudson Valley has seen and is emblematic of a larger tidal shift in upstate New Y

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