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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
A modern engineer who measured some of the remains of these buildings, in order
to determine this point, states that he found the mean fall of the ancient aqueducts
from the purifying piscinas, or reservoirs, to the point of distribution…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…The largest Indian village was upon
the high flat at the neck of the peninsula of Senasqua, or Tellers, or Croton Point, which unites it with
the main land, and over which now runs the
River Road. Hence for convenience…
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…The grapes of Croton Point have long ago become celebrated for their richness and lusciousness, as many tongues can testify which have tasted their sweetness. Dr. Underhill is a benefactor of his age and race,
Various (1971)
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…52, July 1971 7 the "small stemmed point" complex on Long Island. On some of his sites Wading River points occur only in the lowest levels, on others they are present throughout the deposits, sometimes in association with other point…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…According to Scammosi the general practice of the Romans was to
allow a fall of 1 in 500.t
A modern engineer who measured some of the remains of these buildings, in order
to determine this point, states that he…
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In September 1859, The Gardener’s Monthly published an account of a trip to Croton Point, which the author says was “visited through the summer by numerous travellers, who are permitted to drive through the grounds.” We’re lucky that…
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…The Croton River was deep enough to allow sloops and barges
to unload their cargoes far upstream. Croton, in those days, was a
milling and manufacturing point. The mountains and the hills back
through Cortlandt and Yorktown yielded ores and…
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…Croton Point, the beautiful peninsula reaching far into the Hudson, embracing with its curved shoreline on the side toward Croton
village the charming sheet of water known to the Indians as "Mother's
Lap," has a history all its own…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Drieger wrote "Looking back, one may well wonder why the original discovery of the Tule Springs locality in 1933, with its evidences of contemporaneity of man and extinct Pleistocene fauna as reported in that…
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…Underhill for the grapes he grew on Croton Point, end up buried in a garden on Long Island? That’s what reader Mike S. wants to know. “Many
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. II, No. 7. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
See Castle Point (Bronx)
Castle Point (Bronx), 114, 222
Castle Point (N. J.), 199, 239
Castle Point road (Bronx), 114
Castleton avenue, 192
Castuteeuw, or Kes-asketu, 156
Catiemut hill, 54
Cave, Indian, see Indian Cave, the
Cedar street (S…
croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt
3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine Croton Point Sanitary Landfill Railroad 1 Landfill, NYSDEC Site #360001 Post Closure Monitoring and Sampling Report, Table 4b: Leachate (RR Sump) County Daily Wastewater DL/LOQ Units Limits (Avg.) RR Sump RR sump RR sump 0.5…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] "Determining Cultural Levels in Unstratified Sites" Philip H. Salkin, Triple Cities Chapter "The Osteology of Seneca Residence Pattern: The Reservation Period" Audrey Sublett, Florida Atlantic University, Fredrick Al. Houghton Chapter "A Stylistic Analysis of Iroquois Pottery" William Engelbrecht…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Total in the Divisions of 1732
and 1733 75,985
Lots South of Croton 7,128
83,113
Lands in Pound ridge 3000
Parson's Point on the Hudson 100
Total east of the Hudson... 8(!,213 „
' Tract on West…
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allowed such free access to his property because this brief article gives us tantalizing details about the scope of his business—the fruit he grew in addition to grapes, the “deer-park and fish-pond” on Croton Point and his…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] At the Frontenac Island site the projectile point inventory included 104 broad, stemmed points, some clearly identifiable with the Genesee type, others equitable with the ruder and less well defined stemmed form found in the Brewerton assemblages at…
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.
…On the
11th of October, he says, fourteen British seamen were taken prisonTeller's (Croton) Point by Captain Hallet's company of New
Yorkers atmilitia. From the time of the landing of the British expedition below Verplanck's Point on…
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to his vineyards at Croton Point, the Doctor has near at hand his Mount Green farm, which he contemplates covering with vines. You need not go to the Rhine to see vineyards and enjoy scenery. . . .” Mount Green Road is off…
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…His Croton Point vineyards will be a lasting monument to his fame so long as his grapes grow and flourish. Think of fifty acres of the choicest
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] Comments on vessel size and surface finish are based on two completely restored vessels and three partially restored vessels. The criteria used to analyze the pottery vessels are exterior surface finish, interior surface finish, tempering material, decoration technique…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] This process of material substitution probably involved significant technological and motor habit changes, since both the stone represented-quartz, quartzite and flint-and the form of its occurrence, in shore or bank pebbles or in quarried strata, differed…
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Railway Company. Jennings knew Underhill personally and he not only adds to our knowledge about the “Grape King” of Croton Point, he prints a portrait of Underhill as well. According to Jennings , Underhill “appreciated the desirability of more rapid
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
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At an early period, Teller's Point or neck passed from the
native Indian proprietors to William and Sarah Teller. " The
point or peninsula, (says Judge Benson,) the northern chop of the
bay or entrance into Croton River, the…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
Croton, Chief, 295-296
Croton Manor-house, 317
Columbian Celebration, 1892, 50 Croton Point, 10, 301, 304
Columbiaville, 509 Croton River, 11, 206, 21)3, 2()4, 337
Columbus, 2, 5 Crown Point, 483
Commissioners of Emigration, 41 Cruger, General…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] This fact, already remarked for the narrow point users of the middle and upper Hudson Valley, can be extended to include the substitution of Onondaga and Normanskill flints for rhyolite in the manufacture of the "broad points" of…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Chapter XVIII
The Storming of Stony Point
Peekskill, above
BETWEEN Croton Point and
the railway station, are scattered pleasant
residences. A few miles to the north is the
little village of Cruger's; then, just above Montrose's
Point, back…
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.
…On returning to the village across the flelds northward of Mount
Pleasant, I obtained a full view of Teller's or Croton Point, which divides
Tappan from Haverstraw Bay, It is almost two miles in length, and was
called Se…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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…A few "strike-a-lights" and one meadowood* point, probably a stray from Point Peninsula times were also found. To date, we can compare the NOK site chronologically with a somewhat similar site, the Oakfield Site. From this it appears…
Various (1971)
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…In the southeastern sites the temporal range of the point styles reported for Staten Island is as much as 2000 years on radiocarbon or estimated dates, or between c. 8000-6000 B.C. There are C-14 dates on charcoal…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The plan was fully discussed was
CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 197
pronounced by some to be visionary, and it was declared by a member then in the city
councils, that water enough could not be procured to fill a tea-kettle…