…Sign OLD CROTON DAM KEEPER’S HOUSE (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct The dwelling house of the overseer of the Croton Dam. Significance(s) Current Designation(s) OLD CROTON DAM BARN (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Current…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) NEW CROTON RESERVOIR 1892-1906 Plate 13-, New Croton Aqueduct Following the contours of the valley, the New Croton Reservoir absorbed Croton Lake and the Old Croton Dam, ultimately achieving a capacity…

…BOYD’S CORNERS DAM 1866-1870 (Demolished 1980s) Plate 1-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Simple in design, the Boyd’s Corners Dam was 670 feet long and 57 feet high. Stretching across the West Branch of the Croton River, the…

distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign AMAWALK AUXILLARY DAM 1897 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) Earthen with a length of 400 feet and height of 25 feet, the Amawalk Auxiliary Dam is sited on the west side of…

…Introduction Lake Manahatta (now Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir) constructed (decommissioned 1993) 1898 1903 High Pumping Station completed 1906 1906 Jerome Park Reservoir completed New Croton Dam and Reservoir completed 1906 1906 West Branch Dam and Reservoir completed Henry Ford’s…

…SING SING KILL BRIDGE 1842 Plate 20-8, Old Croton Aqueduct Type SODOM DAM 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign SODOM RESERVOIR 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Vertical…

…Introduction 1911 Additional Putnam County dams completed (Croton Falls Diverting Dam and Reservoir, Croton Falls Hemlock Dam and Reservoir) 1984 1981 135th Street Gatehouse designated a NYC Landmark 1983 135th Street Gatehouse placed on National Register of Historic Places 1965…

…Significance(s) Appendix CROTON FALLS DAM 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CROTON FALLS DIVERTING DAM 1911 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Earthen with a stepped…

continuation of the Sodom Auxiliary Dam, the overflow weir stretches 500 feet and is 8 feet high. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s) 41 SOUTH YONKERS GATEHOUSE c 1888 Plate 28-XX, New Croton Aqueduct…

…There was little evidence of erosion of the stonework or of the apron dunng all of the years that the Dam functioned. When additional water was needed for New York, a sec- ond Croton Dam was built, which flooded Jervis…

…Jervis also concurred with the loca- tion of the dam at Garretson's Mill, seven miles upstream from the Croton's junction with the Hudson. He felt that a high dam would create a large reservoir wherein a more complete…

…Work was well underway when a freshet struck the Croton River watershed. The dam was breached when the water rose 15 feet above the spillway of the dam. The masonry part was on solid rock and was not dis- turbed…

…Tower, View above the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843 Engraved by William James Bennett; 5V2X 10 V2 Inches (Image) Ossining Historical Society Museum Fayette B. Tower, View below the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton…

…Topographical Map Showing the Entire Watershed of Croton River above the Croton Aqueduct Dam. 1858. hand-colored lithograph Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #148. Photo: G. R. Farley figure 43. above: New Croton Dam under Construction, c.1890, photograph Courtesy…

…All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Bridge also — leaving no crossing over the Croton from its mouth to Golden's bridge ....■^^ The newspaper account provides…

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

…Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park: A linear park that runs from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to the Croton Dam in Croton -on-Hudson. Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater…

…Introduction to the Croton Waterworks 10 Studying the Croton Waterworks, New York City’s first water system, in a graduate level studio course in historic preservation at Columbia University, required the widening of our preservation lens. The system is complex…

…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…

…The velocity of the water in the Aqueduct has been as- certained to be about one mile and a half an hour when it is 2 feet deep ; this was determined by floating billets of wood from the Croton Dam…

…Many of these systems—such as the calming pool at the base of the Old Croton Dam and the overhead cableway used in the construction of the Sodom Dam—came to be accepted as standards in similar construction projects for…

…D dam: A structural barrier that impounds or retains water. Department of Water Works: Superseded the Croton Aqueduct Board in 1870. distributing reservoir: A reservoir from which water is distributed; In the Croton Waterworks system, distributing reservoirs were the final…

…Arthur Hunter, 56.153.13 The New Croton Dam, c. 1890s Contemporary print from original glass plate negative The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Gloeckner Newby Co., New Croton Dam, 1912 Photograph; 2V2X 9V2 Inches Collection of ESL Information Services…

…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…

…From the Croton Dam the Aqueduct passes along the left side of the valley of the Croton River until at the mouth of this river it reaches the left bank of the Hudson, which it pursues, keep- ing at a…

…MIDDLE BRANCH DAM 1874-1878 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Earthen with a masonry core-wall, the 515 foot long dam stretches across the Middle Branch of the Croton River. It reaches a maximum height of 94 feet. For more…

…Another plan was proposed which contemplated a permanent dam across the Hudson River extending from the city to the Jersey shore. This dam was proposed to be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby keeping all…

…Artists, writers, and the general public also associated the Croton water system with park-like public amenities in both the City and the countryside — in the fountains, reservoirs, the Dam and Lake, and High Bridge. In fact, the concept of…

…The trail begins on the south side of the New Croton Dam, farthest from the spillway, and works its way down following the path the aqueduct took from the dam to New York City. The trail offers a scenic walk…