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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Croton Dam Stein, Albert Engineer, 133, 61
147, 79, 86, 87, 8, 91
Syphon Bridge, 160
Croton Maid, 193, 78, 9, 20, 24, 6, 15, 195
Supply of Water, 215
Curtis, Zebina, Water Project, 89
Taxes Ward, 139
Clendening Valley…
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…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…
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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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…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…
NYPL, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
…Jervis, showing the elevation changes along the lower portion of the Croton Aqueduct as it approached Manhattan. The aqueduct descended by gravity from the Croton Dam at 166 feet above tide to the receiving reservoir at 115 feet — a remarkably…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
At 8 miles from the Croton dam, it reaches the
village of Sing Sing, and continues south through the villages of Tarrytown, Dobbs'
Ferry, Hastings, and Yonkers. At the latter place, it leaves the bank of the Hudson, crosses the…
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
…NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
License: Public domain
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
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.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The most prominent objects of labor and cost on the first division are r first, the dam
across the Croton River. This dam will be fifty feet high, from the bed of the river, and
about forty feet from low…
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.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
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.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
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.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the 20th January, 1843, the then Commissioners made their final report, which,
announced the completion of the Croton Dam, and that it had undergone, without
freshet caused by the warm rains, and the breaking
damage, the test of a…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…level with the dam, which gives us the same
head at Sleepy Hollow as we have at the dam. By my plan we arrive at Sleepy Hollow,
travelling only eight miles with
the whole of the Croton."
On the 18th…
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.
…As an example , the Amawalk dam , which forms one of the upper Croton reservoirs , while only about half the height , 85 feet , yet has a base even wider than that of this embankment of unprecedented height . And further , this embankment…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The powers delegated to the Commissioners, and to the Common Council of this
city, by the act of 2d of May, 1834, cannot extend to a project which contemplates erecting a dam in the Hudson river, beyond the boundary line…
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…
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.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…At the
upper part of this excavation were erected the head arches, three in number, which extend
from the east end of the mound dam, to the rock of the bank, thus forming a continuation of the dam.
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…twenty-three sections of the Croton Aqueduct, including
the dam in the Croton, the aqueduct bridge over Sing Sing Kill, and the necessary excavations and tunnelling on the line of about S miles from the Croton to Sing Sing village."
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…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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…He then proposes constructing a dam near the Quaker Bridge, on the Croton river, 45
feet high, which will give an elevation or head of 125 feet above tide of the Hudson ;
" from this dam the
pipes will rise gradually…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the dam is 90 feet, and it is supposed in times of a freshet will be from four to six feet deep it has already in the last
;
autumn been equal to three feet. The area of the Croton Lake…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…At the
upper part of this excavation were erected the head arches, three in number, which extend
from the east end of the mound dam, to the rock of the bank, thus forming a continuation of the dam.
" On the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…by the unprecedented storm."
The prevalence of heavy rains in the spring of 1841, retarded the reconstruction of
the Croton dam, which was contracted for anew, at an increased price indeed, but of
larger dimensions and more durable materials ;
and…
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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
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edit ] The Bear Mountain Bridge Road and Toll House and the Old Croton Dam are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . [ 7 ] The Cortlandt area is known for its Revolutionary War history, specifically the location of the strategic…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…It extends about thirty-three miles north and south and eleven
miles east and west, and has an area of 339 square miles above the
present Croton Dam, to which about twenty square miles will be
added when the great…