Photograph from Scientific American, February 5, 1898. This photograph from Scientific American shows the end result of the first phase of constructing the New Croton Dam—diverting the natural flow of the Croton River in order to dig the gigantic

…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

This is a detail of the Croton area from the map The Route of the New Aqueduct from Central Park to Croton Dam . . . prepared by the Aqueduct Commission in 1884. The route of the new aqueduct tunnel is the dark…

…November 1877 ad These two nineteenth century puzzles, showing the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, were part of a set called Sliced Objects, published by E. G. Selchow & Co., circa 1867 to 1880. The puzzles came

published the New Croton Aqueduct tunnel was three years away from completion and the dam was still in the planning stages. 2 The narrow part of the Croton, where today’s Quaker Bridge crosses the river, was one of several…

embankment of the old Croton Dam—destroyed the Van Cortlandt mills, along with all the bridges and buildings on the banks of the lower Croton River. 3 What’s remarkable is that the water power produced at the site was…

…For a before-and-after bird’s eye view of the flooding of the Croton River Valley after construction of the New Croton Dam see this previous post . A high resolution image of the Taylor map is available at the

…New Croton Dam, circa 1906 Double Arches Promenade View from Quaker Bridge Share this: Print (Opens in new window)

hole that would become the foundation of the dam. Construction started on September 20, 1892 with excavation to divert the Croton River. A channel 125 feet wide and about a quarter of a mile long was blasted out of solid…

…Detail of the area from the Old Croton Dam to the Hudson River. Scientific

Library of Congress website . ↩ The tunnel was opened in 1890 and construction of the New Croton Dam began in 1892. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share…

…Brickmaking was still a major industry in the village and the construction of New Croton Dam, which began in 1892, had finally reached the point where the Croton River had been diverted around the construction

…Photograph of the New Croton Dam construction site in 1898, the year the Village of Croton-on-Hudson was

…Quaker Bridge was definitely there in 1884 and would have been dwarfed by the dam behind it, that the New York Sun in 1888 called “The Biggest

…The temporary dam in this photo was about 1,600 feet long. Approximately 1,821,400 cubic yards of earth and 400,250 cubic yards of rock were excavated for

may be found in an article, “Croton Bridge Meeting,” published in the Sing Sing newspaper Hudson River Chronicle on October 26, 1841. Earlier that year what we now call the Old Croton Dam had collapsed, sending a deluge of water…

…For the first time in fourteen years water is flowing over the huge dam of the Croton Reservoir at the estimated rate of 2,000,000,000 gallons a day, the vast tide dropping to the Croton River, 150 feet…

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…

the letters IXL (a clever bit of self-promotion meaning “I excel . . . at brickmaking”), and stonework by masons who worked on the New Croton Dam. For additional information about the Underhill brickyard, see this article written by Robert

incorporated. Despite all the digging for clay along the Hudson River and the incessant construction of the dam, the Manual of Westchester County noted something about Croton that is still true today— “the village is attractive as a residence

Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy of the Library of Congress. This photograph of the New Croton Dam was published in the “Rotogravure Picture Section” of the Sunday, December 14, 1919 issue of the New York Times with the caption: Niagara

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…

what is now called the Old Croton Dam. The Distributing Reservoir was located where the New York Public Library and Bryant Park are today. The fountain in Central Park, which was then under construction. Dollar Weekly , October 22, 1842. ↩ Whitman…