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Croton Reservoir Panorama
Panoramic view of the Croton Reservoir, showing the rocky shoreline, water body, and surrounding landscape with trees and hills in the background.
Date: c.1910
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: photograph
Subjects: reservoir, rocky shoreline, trees…
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…About one mile from the site along the banks of the Croton River was the Bowery, or Little Italy as it was also known. There were rooms for workers in two-story shacks, grocery stores, saloons, chapel and a one…
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…1907 the new masonry Croton Dam completed as well as a new aqueduct. c. 1912 -- Point Pleasant Park was opened at the southern tip of Croton Point. Visitors could picnic on the lawn of the Interwasser mansion. 1915 -- when the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…During his incumbency the new Croton Dam was under construc- tion . The purpose of this paper is to explain , as briefly as possible , the original plan of this structure and the im- perative necessity of its modification , and to answer…
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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
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Investors were left high and dry as the stock certificates became worthless. No canal was ever to disturb the Westchester countryside, including the hamlet of Croton Landing. Engraving by Ossining artist Robert Havell of first Croton Dam, circa 1842.
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…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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…to a woman who had met George Washington as a child, a climb to see the view from the top of Prickly Pear Hill and a side trip up the Croton River to the original Croton Dam near Pine’s
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…CORE WALL MARCH 1ST 1901 EMOVED DISINTEGRATED FLIMESTONE SHATTERED LIME STONE THE NEW CROTON DAM LONGITUDINAL SECTION ON AXIS OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…CORE WALL MARCH 1ST 1901 EMOVED DISINTEGRATED FLIMESTONE SHATTERED LIME STONE THE NEW CROTON DAM LONGITUDINAL SECTION ON AXIS OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…CORE WALL MARCH 1ST 1901 EMOVED DISINTEGRATED FLIMESTONE SHATTERED LIME STONE THE NEW CROTON DAM LONGITUDINAL SECTION ON AXIS OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE…
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MILL RIVER CULVERT - Old Croton Aqueduct, Mill River Culvert, U.S. Route 9 at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery" . Library of Congress . Retrieved January 6, 2026 . ^ "DEP Donates Century-Old Valve Actuator from New Croton Dam for Permanent Display at Education
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…between reservoirs - 2.176
40.562
It is proper to add to the above, the length of the Croton reservoir, which has been
formed by the erection of the Croton dam and other work necessary to obtain the water,
at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
At 300 feet below the main dam, a second dam is in progress, which is to be 9 feet
high, constructed of timber, stone and gravel, which will set the water back over
the
of the main and form a…
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map — Croton-on-Hudson (1911)
Sanborn map showing Croton-on-Hudson in 1911, after the completion of the New Croton Dam and during the Harmon development era.
Date: 1911
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: map
Subjects…
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[Croton] Dam. Croton Point Lighthouse Steamer Mary Powell, “Queen of the Hudson,” built in 1861. In 1846 a group of “masters and owners of vessels and steamboats navigating the Hudson River, of Albany,” filed a petition with the United States…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The dam, built to form the Fountain Reservoir, is about
six miles above the mouth of the Croton River. The reservoir forms a beautiful sheet of water in the lap of the hills
in the wild region of the Croton…
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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…
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…to a woman who had met George Washington as a child, a climb to see the view from the top of Prickly Pear Hill and a side trip up the Croton River to the original Croton Dam near Pine’s
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is a 10.5-acre park on the Croton River, near New York State Route 129 (NY 129), within a mile or so of the Croton Dam, used mostly for fly fishing and picnics. It is within 100 yards of…
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Croton Aqueduct Watershed, 1908
A map and graph from the May 23, 1908 issue of Scientific American illustrating reservoirs within the Croton watershed system following completion of the New Croton Dam, with their relative elevations.
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…PLATES.
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3'^
Entrance Ventilator, .'.---
Sections of the Croton Aqueduct,
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- - - - 84 & 86
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Isometrical View of Culvert, 90
Tunnel and Gate Chamber at the head of the Aqueduct, - - 92
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View above the Croton Dam, 95
Entablature over the entrance to the Aqueduct…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
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Isometrical View of Culvert, 90
Tunnel and Gate Chamber at the head of the Aqueduct, - - 92
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View above the Croton Dam, 95
Entablature over the entrance to the Aqueduct, - 96
View below the Croton Dam,
Croton Aqueduct at Sing-Sing…
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…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
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…The flood of 1841, that swept away the Croton Dam, almost filled the bay with earth;
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…is a view taken from a point below the dam
and shows the relative positions of the dam and the gate
chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The original channel of the River where the dam is built,
;
was…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…A secondary
dam has been built at a distance of 300 feet from the masonry in order to form a basin of water setting back over
the apron at the toe of the main dam so as to break the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…During his incumbency the new Croton Dam was under construc- tion . The purpose of this paper is to explain , as briefly as possible , the original plan of this structure and the im- perative necessity of its modification , and to answer…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…During his incumbency the new Croton Dam was under construc- tion . The purpose of this paper is to explain , as briefly as possible , the original plan of this structure and the im- perative necessity of its modification , and to answer…