extensive planning—including test borings, cost estimates and structural plans. The site was eventually abandoned in favor of one further up-river, but in 1887 Quaker Bridge was the favored location. For Crotonites the detail showing the bridge is

particularly interesting because it depicts a covered wooden bridge. The current metal Quaker Bridge—one of the oldest bridges in Westchester County—wasn’t built until 1894. Detail of the area from the Old Croton Dam to the Hudson River…

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…New Croton Dam, circa 1906 Croton Point and Ossining, circa 1905 Double Arches Promenade View from Quaker Bridge Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new

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…The accompanying article said the map “clearly presents the course of the Croton River, the location of Muscoot, Croton, and the proposed Quaker Bridge dams, and in the dotted

…2 The narrow part of the Croton, where today’s Quaker Bridge crosses the river, was one of several areas subjected to

structure of its kind in the world,” the Quaker Bridge Dam. The City of New York. Will L. Taylor, chief draughtsman. New York, Galt & Hoy, 1879. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click to enlarge. Taylor’s 1879 New York…