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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The construction of the work was commenced in May
1837 ; and on the 22d June, 1842, the Aqueduct received
the water from the Fountain Reservoir on the Croton :
--on
the 27th of June, the water having been permitted to traverse…
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…J, Carmlchael, who lived nearby and worked on the Aqueduct project in that town. A painting of the Sing Sing Aqueduct Bridge by a T. J. Carmtehael (kxsatton unknown, unless It may be this one) was exhibited at the National…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
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Actual money cost of the aqueduct to the distributing reservoir at Murray's Hill $7,983,503 12
Add, for procuring and laying water pipes
Total expenditure
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Interest on water stock to 1st August, inclusive
Sundry water loan, and other…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Clavigero mentions another aqueduct constructed by the predecessor of Montezuma, Ahuizoth, from Copoacai to Mexico
of which the chief object was to supply the failing waters of the salt water lake that
surrounded Mexico and which had become difficult of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Commissioners, however, do by no means recommend
this deviation from the plan proposed ;
but as some of their fellow citizens have expressed a
solicitude that the water might be carried on an aqueduct bridge with architectural display,
the Commissioners…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Pope having directed
new experiments and observations to be made, it was found that although the level of
the lake was about one and a half palms above the surface of the ancient reservoir which
fed the aqueduct, that…
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…The Aqueduct and Surrounding Neighborhoods, Yonkers. c. 1890s, contemporary print from original glass plate negative The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Panetta The building of the Croton Aqueduct is usually incorporated into the history of New York City where it…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…But the two Captains marched out of Tacuba with most of their troops, and though they met with a very
obstinate resistance, they drove the enemy from their post, and broke the pipes and aqueduct in two or three places…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The total capacity of delivery of the aqueduct is about 50 millions of gallons for
24 hours, but in case the lake is being reduced seven feet, by a discharge through the
aqueduct, not more than 35 millions can be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The proportion of lime of aqueduct masonry
on foundation walls over valleys, to that in excavation, is about as one to eight. The
masonry of the aqueduct is covered with earth to a sufficient depth to protect it from
frost…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
…This was the terminus of the 41-mile aqueduct — Croton water flowed here by gravity before being distributed to the city. The reservoir site later became part of Central Park's Great Lawn.
Date: 1843
Location: Yorkville, Manhattan (now Central…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
…Addison Richards' article 'The Croton Aqueduct' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1860. Shows the dramatic scenery below the Old Croton Dam with water cascading over the spillway. Part of an 8-engraving series documenting the entire aqueduct from…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Some important improvements in the course of the aqueduct
resulted from this re- survey ;
distances were shortened, and curves lessened, and by the
middle of June, maps were prepared of the whole line, setting forth how much land
would be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Enough is known, nevertheless, to prove that the conduits are beyond the
influence of frost and, constructed as they are, with fidelity and of the best materials,
a duration may be anticipated for the Croton aqueduct equal to that of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The utmost breadth of the piers of the aqueduct of Chaponost, which carried a canal of three feet broad, by six feet high, is not
more than six feet, while the breadth of the aqueduct which passed over the river…
Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
Croton Aqueduct Bridge 1931
Black and white photograph of a large steel arch bridge under construction over a body of water, likely the Hudson River. The bridge's metal structure is prominent, with a tall tower on the left side…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…As, during the preceding year, no disturbance, misconduct, nor depredation had occur-
CROTON AQUEDUCT. 159
red among the laborers no place for the sale of liquors having then been opened and
as it was all-important, alike for the progress…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…GENERAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE AQUEDUCT.
Plate I. is a section of the Aqueduct showing the form of
the masonry used in earth excavations. The foundation is
formed with concrete ; the side walls of stone ; the bottom
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…To CLARKSON CROLIUS, Esq., Chairman Committee of Invitation )
for Croton Aqueduct celebration. $
Sin:
I received the invitation of Committee to attend the celebration of the introduction
of the Croton water into the city, and hope my health will be so…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…He entered immediately upon his duty, traversed and inspected the whole line of the Aqueduct between the two rivers, and so far as he was able to
judge without instrumental verification, approved of it. Garretson's Mills, he considered
under…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Jervis, in a letter to the author of 22d April, " has been
thickness is too
deposited on the bottom and sides of the aqueduct, but as yet its depth or
small to be measured with much accuracy. As near as…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The next important work in order, is the Aqueduct Bridge, across the valley of Sing
Sing Kill. This requires an arch of eighty feet span and twenty-five feet rise, resting on
abutments of stone masonry, and is intended to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The whole length of aqueduct, arched and complete, is 59,169 feet
Aqueduct.
or eleven and one fifth miles. That completed on the first of July last was about two
miles. The increase, in this part of the work, since…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The cost* of the Croton Aqueduct was very great but once made, it is final, and its
waters being distributed by its own head, there is not, as in Paris and in London, in Phila-
* TOTAL COST OF THE CROTON…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The Aqueduct enters a gate chamber at A. where there
are regulating gates by which the water can be discharged
into the northern division ; or into the southern division by a
continuation of the Aqueduct within the Reservoir bank to…
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…is an enlarged view of one of the bridges and a portion of the foundation wall and Aqueduct adjacent to it. The Aqueduct has a cast iron lining over the bridges like that described at the Sing Sing Kill. These…
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…A view is given of the Aqueduct of Spoleto, in Italy. The bridge supporting this Aqueduct is remarkable for the slen- der form of the piers and their great height; being only ten and a half feet thick and two…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir is 40.562
miles to wit :
Masonry conduit in Westchester county 32.880'
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Do. do. on New York Island 4.187
Total length 37.067
Receiving reservoir from…
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…These bridges and the adjacent work form a very interesting point on the line of Aqueduct. Plate XII. is a view of the Aqueduct at this place : at the left of the picture may be seen the bridge over the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
ing not at right angles with the line of Aqueduct required
the arch to be built askew ; the arch lies in the direction of
the road-way, having the ends in planes parallel with the
direction of the Aqueduct. This…