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These are the Croton and Hudson Highlands sections of Walling’s Route Guides. Hudson River . . . Maps and Descriptions by H.F. Walling, published by Taintor Brothers in New York in 1867. The red line snaking up the east side of the river is the route
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of the Hudson River Railroad—what we know today as Metro-North. The Hudson River Railroad was chartered in May, 1846 and Cornelius Vanderbilt obtained control of the line in 1864—one of the first acts in the consolidation and expansion of railroads
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in the mid to late 1800s. Below is the timetable from the same publication, listing Cornelius Vanderbilt as President and his son, William Henry Vanderbilt as Vice President. The entire guide is available online . Share this: Print (Opens in new
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In 1950 Theodore J. Cornu drew this map of the lower Hudson River as the Lenape saw it, circa 1600. It appeared as a small part of page 3, in issue #1, of his extraordinary hand-drawn, hand-lettered, self-published journal, Hudson Valley Echoes .
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(Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Lenape Native Americans Theorore Cornu Published February 13, 2013 February 16, 2013
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This map is interesting because of what it does and does not show. If your car were to break down in 1950 you wouldn’t know from looking at this map that there was a railroad (the arch-enemy of gas companies) running along the shore of the Hudson
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River. But if you looked carefully at the key to the map you would learn that the anchor symbol under the “n” in “Croton-on-Hudson” meant that there was a seaplane available to take you back to New York City. (And if the seaplane was unavailable you
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get a ride out Route 129 past the New Croton Dam to the small airplane landing strip indicated by the plane symbol.) Click the image to enlarge it. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
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This map and graph were published in the May 23, 1908 issue of Scientific American . They show the locations of the different reservoirs within the Croton watershed after the New Croton Dam was completed and their relative elevations. Click the image
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Of all the people who recorded the unbridled joy New Yorkers felt when the Croton Aqueduct opened in October 1842, few captured it as eloquently as Maria Lydia Child, whose poem Thanksgiving Day , was set to music and is known today as Over the River
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and Through the Woods . In her book Letters from New-York she writes about the Croton Water Celebration and the magnificent fountains—symbols of the engineering feat that made modern New York City possible. “Oh, who that has not been shut up in the
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great prison cell of a city, and made to drink of its brackish springs, can estimate the blessings of the Croton Aqueduct? Clean, sweet, abundant water! Well might they bring it thirty miles under-ground, and usher it into the city with roaring
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cannon, sonorous bells, waving flags, floral canopies, and a loud chorus of song! I shall never forget my sensations when I first looked upon the Fountains. My soul jumped, and clapped its hands, rejoicing in exceeding beauty. I am a novice, and
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easily made wild by the play of graceful forms; but those accustomed to the splendid displays of France and Italy, say the world offers nothing to equal the magnificence of the New York jets . There is such a head of water, that it throws the column
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sixty feet into the air, and drops it into the basin in a shower of diamonds. The one in the Park, opposite the Astor house, consists of a large central pipe, with eighteen subordinate jets in a basin a hundred feet broad. By shifting the plate on
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the conduit pipe, these fountains can be made to assume various shapes: The Maid of the Mist, the Croton Plume, the Vase, the Dome, the Bouquet, the Sheaf of Wheat, and the Weeping-willow. As the sun shone on the sparkling drops, through mist and
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feathery foam, rainbows glimmered at the sides, as if they came to celebrate a marriage between Spirits of Light and Water Nymphs. The fountain in Union Park is smaller, but scarcely less beautiful. It is a weeping willow of crystal drops; but one
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can see that it weeps for joy . Now it leaps and sports as gracefully as Undine in her wildest moods, and then sinks into the vase under a veil of woven pearl, like the undulating farewell courtesy of her fluid relations. On the evening of the great
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Croton celebration, they illuminated this fountain with coloured fireworks, kindling the cloud of mist with many-coloured gems; as if the Water Spirits had had another wedding with Fairies of the Diamond Mines. . . .” This excerpt is from Letter XXX,
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dated November 14, 1842. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
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Harper’s Weekly , October 26, 1867. Click on the image to enlarge it. In October 1867, Harper’s Weekly published a full-page wood engraving of the Underhill vineyards. Entitled “Gathering Grapes—An October Scene on the Hudson,” the image takes us
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back to the time when Richard T. Underhill was the “grape king” of Croton Point. How significant were the Underhill vineyards? In his multi-volume History of Wine in America , Thomas Pinney says the Underhills were the “first dynasty in American