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…O Old Croton Aqueduct: Opened on October 14, 1842, as a forty-one-mile-long aqueduct bringing water to New York City from the Croton River in Westchester County; Became a National Historic Landmark in 1992. Old Croton Aqueduct State…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…under the Aqueduct,
and one having two arches each 25 feet span for the river. Plate XVIII. is a view of the work at Saw Mill River. The water is set back at this place by a dam for a…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
…1860)
Engraving showing the Croton Aqueduct route as it carries water toward Manhattan. From T. Addison Richards' comprehensive article in Harper's, December 1860. The aqueduct traveled 41 miles by gravity from the Croton Dam to the receiving reservoir in…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…This dam was proposed to
be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby
keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would
be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be
pumped…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…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 about 120 feet wide ; the average depth of water…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…seven feet, by a discharge through the
aqueduct, not more than 35 millions can be calculated on as the average delivery during
that time. The flow of the Croton in ordinary low water exceeds 50 millions for 24 hours, and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The work, on the whole, has been prosecuted, with the exception referred to, with
commendable perseverance and energy, and the dam can be made to throw into the aqueduct the water required, early in the ensuing^summer, and can be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the Croton reservoir, which has been
formed by the erection of the Croton dam and other work necessary to obtain the water,
at a suitable level on the Croton river, as without this dam and reservoir, the aqueduct
would have…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Croton Dam. The southern shore of the Croton river at the point where the dam
but not
is located, is a gneiss rock moderately sloping up the hill from the water's edge,
;
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…D dam: A structural barrier that impounds or retains water. Department of Water Works: Superseded the Croton Aqueduct Board in 1870. distributing reservoir: A reservoir from which water is distributed; In the Croton Waterworks system, distributing reservoirs were the final…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…CROTON DAM. The work on this dam is now so nearly completed, that whenever it
is considered safe and proper to do so, the quantity of water sent into the aqueduct may
be increased to its full capacity. This massive…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
…Addison Richards' article 'The Croton Aqueduct' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1860. The dam created a 400-acre lake that was the sole water supply for New York City.
Date: December 1860
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The following table
shows the length of the Aqueduct as it is divided into different planes of descent, from the gate chamber at the Croton
dam to the gate chamber at the Receiving Reservoir on the
Island of New- York…
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 water in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two…
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.
…s water supply
from Westchester County were commenced, which are still in progress; for although the new Croton Aqueduct was completed in 1891,
1 See Smith's Manual of Westchester County,
95.
HISTORY
WESTCHESTER
COUNTY
the great dam, which is…
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…Tiemann, Croton Aqueduct Distributing Reservoir, 1899 Photograph; 9Vi6 x 67i6 inches The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Abstract of Corporirtlon Ordinances and Rules adopted by the Croton Aqueduct Department, regulating the Use of Water, to wtilch the attention of consumers…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The
contractors for the new dam in the Croton, for instance, were bound to have it in such an
advanced stage by 1st November of this year, as to throw two feet water from the lake
into the aqueduct. The…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The difference of tides is about 5 feet,
which added to the height of dam above high tides, would
give 7 feet of the top of the dam exposed to the pressure
of the water on the up stream side…
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…The velocity of the water in the Aqueduct has been as- certained to be about one mile and a half an hour when it is 2 feet deep ; this was determined by floating billets of wood from the Croton Dam…
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…But it was only one of the several structures planned for the Croton water system. Another was the nearly 40-mile-long tunnel needed to carry the Croton water from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir on Murray Hill, between…
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of the New, discharging the water into the east and western divisions Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign JEROME PARK KEEPER’S HOUSE c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29A-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Designed by F. S. Cook, the Jerome Park Keeper…
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…Even before the dam collapse, Westchester residents and Croton businessmen recognized the competitive economic threat the Aqueduct represented. The 1837 "Memorial To the New York State Legislature" charged New York City with attempting to monopolize the trade and commerce of…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…is a view taken above the dam showing the
position of the entrance to the tunnel which leads from the
Reservoir to the gate chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The entablature which is seen on the left against…
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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…idea of building a dam across the
Hudson. We have now gone over most of the preliminary steps
which were taken before deciding upon the source for a
supply of water. --Having fixed upon the Croton River as
a stream…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The utmost rise of the water above the dam
was 25 inches although, according to estimate, a million gallons per minute passed over
;
it,
exclusive of that which escaped through the waste culvert of the dam, and through the
aqueduct…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Tower, View above the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843 Engraved by William James Bennett; 5V2X 10 V2 Inches (Image) Ossining Historical Society Museum Fayette B. Tower, View below the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Not having
time to visit the fountain reservoir, I have availed myself of the pencil
services of a friend, in giving a sketch of the dam from a point just
below it.
The Croton aqueduct runs parallel with the Iludson…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…His first proposition was,
to take the water from the mouth of the river; second, from near the Quaker Bridge;
and third, at Garritson's Mill, about four miles above the said bridge. Now, although this
CROTON AQUEDUCT, 127
last…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the 7th January, 1841, by a great and sudden rise in the water of the Croton,
and consequently of the Croton Lake, which carried away the dam for a distance of near
200 feet. It was the part described as…