🏘️ Croton Local History
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little radish girl And chimney-sweeping boy. Poor little ragged children, Who sleep in wretched places, Come out for Croton water, To wash their dirty faces. And if they find a big tub full, They shout aloud with glee, And all unite to freight a
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chip, And send it out to sea. To the ever-running hydrant The dogs delight to go, To bathe themselves, and wet their tongues, In the silver water-flow, The thirsty horse, he knoweth well Where the Croton poureth down, And thinks his fare is much
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improved In the hot and dusty town. And many a drunkard has forgot To seek the fiery cup; For every where, before his face, Sweet water leapeth up. Then blessings on the Croton! It flows for man and beast, And gives its wealth out freely To the
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greatest and the least. We city boys take great delight To watch its bubbling play, To make it rush up in the air, Or whirl around in spray. It is good sport to guide a hose Against the window pane, Or dash it through the dusty trees, Like driving
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summer rain. O, blessed be the Croton! It gives us endless fun, To make it jump and splash about, And sparkle in the sun. And the fountains, in their beauty, It glads our hearts to see— Ever springing up to heaven, So gracefully and free. Fast fall
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their sparkling diamonds, Beneath the sun’s bright glance, And like attendant fairies, The brilliant rainbows dance. White and pure their feathery foam, Under the moon’s mild ray, While twinkling stars look brightly down, Upon their ceaseless play.
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And all about the crowded town, In garden, shop, or bower, Neat little fountains scatter round A small refreshing shower. Perhaps some dolphin spouts it forth To sprinkle flower or grass, Or marble boy, with dripping urn, Salutes you as you pass.
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Then blessings on the Croton! May it diminish never— For its glorious beauty Is a joy forever. From Child's biography at the Poetry Foundation website. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
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Related Tagged Croton Water Croton Water Celebration Lydia Maria Child poetry Published May 13, 2013 May 13, 2013
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This is an often photographed view of the New Croton Dam, but this particular image from 1912 captured an automobile driving along the road which once ran across what is now the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. For an equally romantic image of “driving”
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out to the Dam, see this earlier post . 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
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"Camping at the City's Doors" was the title of an article in the June, 1905, issue of Country Life in America magazine, which described places where "one can feel as far away from civilization as upon an Adirondack lake, but a twenty minutes' row or
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paddle takes one across the river to catch a train, mail a letter, receive or send telegrams." One of the places featured was Croton Point, "on the New York side of the river about thirty miles from the city." What’s particularly interesting about
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this article is the description of the "network of creeks" in the marsh which was tragically filled in by the Westchester County dump. The map detail below gives a good idea what the marsh was like. "Croton Point [is] separated by a wide and shallow
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bay from Croton Landing, a station on the New York Central Railroad. This Horseshoe Beach of fine sand is an ideal bathing spot. The river itself and Croton Bay make ideal sailing waters. The breezes coming across Haverstraw Bay are steady, for the
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Hudson River. There is fairly good fishing off the northwest end of the Point. Table supplies may be had from Croton Landing, and the camper who desires to run to town every other day can be paddled or rowed across in half an hour to catch his train.
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A liveryman will call for him morning and evening when the weather is unpleasant. Camping is restricted to the shores of Croton Bay, but well-behaved visitors may roam over the Point at will. A network of creeks enters the southern side and one of
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these cuts the Point almost in two. At half tide, by portaging a couple of hundred feet, one can pass through the Point down to the mouth of the Croton River without going outside into the Hudson." This detail is from a topographic map published in
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1891 1 , but it is probably the most accurate depiction of the water courses in the marsh area as it was in 1905 when this article was written. Atlas of the Metropolitan District and adjacent country comprising the counties of New York, Kings,
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Richmond, Westchester . . . Published by Julius Bien & Co. New York. 1891 ↩ 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
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These details are from a map of the Town of Cortlandt which accompanied the 1940 census. According to a note on the map it was prepared in January, 1935 "in the office of the County Engineer, with workers supplied by the Westchester County Emergency
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Work Bureau." The map can be viewed and downloaded from the National Archives 1940 Census website . 1 The map from the National Archives website has been converted from a negative to a positive image. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print
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These images are taken from a topographic map of the "Haverstraw Quadrangle," which was surveyed in 1938 by the U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey and published in 1943 1 . This map provides so many layers of information—buildings,
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roads, elevations, vegetation, bodies of water, place names, and more—that we can get a good sense of what Croton was like before Route 9 was built. Here are some highlights: A. All but one of the buildings on the west side of Riverside Avenue were
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torn down when Route 9 was built. The exception is the old Croton train station , which today is the office of F.A. Burchetta Co., electrical contractors. B. This isn't the Duck Pond, it's the area where Croton Auto Park is today. In the late 19th
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