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Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 , compiled by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1876. Volume 11. ↩ The current Wikipedia article for the Croton Aqueduct states “Among those present were
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…Commissioners reported in favour of its use, though far away; and in May, 1837, the construction of an aqueduct from a point six miles from its mouth to the
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…Croton Dam near Pine’s Bridge (now submerged) At the head of the aqueduct a dam was constructed, for the purpose of forming a fountain reservoir. At the beginning of 1841 a flood, produced by a protracted rain-storm and…
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Croton Dam and Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, NY In the mid- to late 1800s first the Croton Dam , then the New Croton Dam , and the Croton Aqueduct were built on the Croton River to supply New York City…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On this account a purifying piscina or reservoir was interposed between the river and the mouth of the aqueduct, in which the water settled before entering the channel-ways. In spite, however, of
this precaution, the water in times of…
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Supply—Present Condition of Work on the Great Croton River Dam.” Christopher Tompkins, author of The Croton Dams and Aqueduct , said this image is “especially noteworthy for its accuracy in depicting the excavation.” Below is the top section of the
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Whitson’s Mill, located to the east of the aqueduct arch. Shortly after this was painted a wooden bridge was erected under the arch to cross the Kill. The original painting is in the collection of the Ossining Historical Society…
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aqueduct runs parallel with the Hudson, at the mean distance of half a mile from it throughout its entire length. Its course is marked by culverts and arches of solid masonry, and its line may be observed at a distance…
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by which a person may enter the aqueduct. At the top of each is an iron screen, to prevent substances from being cast into the ventilators. Our little group shows the different forms of these towers, which present a feature…
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great prison cell of a city, and made to drink of its brackish springs, can estimate the blessings of the Croton Aqueduct? Clean, sweet, abundant water! Well might they bring it thirty miles under-ground, and usher it into the…
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…A key part of what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct, the
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…These are ventilators of the aqueduct; some of them are quite ornamental, as in the case of the one at Sing Sing, others are simple round towers, and every third one has a square base with a door
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…other reservoirs further up the stream, where there are abundant facilities for such purposes."
The total cost of the aqueduct, from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir
inclusive, will be nearly 9,000,000 of dollars,
New- York, 27th…
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…Natural fountains were an ancient symbol of life and salvation, and this imagery opened "The Croton Ode." Public ornamental foun- tains were a luxury made possible by the Aqueduct in addition to the essential services it provided. A source of…
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then-President of the United States John Tyler, former presidents John Quincy Adams and Martin van Buren, and Governor of New York William H. Seward.” See here . ↩ A memoir of the construction, cost, and capacity of the Croton Aqueduct . . . together
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of John Kraljevich Americana. See this letter by Lovett to Thomas Jefferson and The Croton Aqueduct Completion Medal by Dave Baldwin. Token and Medal Society Journal , September/October 2013, vol. 53, no. 5. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window)
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Aqueduct. During a visit last week, curator Norm MacDonald showed us some recently donated material that included two rare photographs of blacksmiths at the New Croton Dam taken in September, 1895. Although there are probably thousands of photographs
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.
Much trouble was experienced in satisfying the land owners along
the line of the proposed aqueduct, who made vexations demands,
among them the extraordinary one (expressed in a memorial to the
legislature) that the legal possession and use of the…
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…There has been a flare-up amongst the Irish laborers on the Croton Aqueduct occasioned by the contractors reducing their wages from $1 to 75 cents/day. Large numbers turned out and marched from Westchester to Harlem, prevented others from…
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
License: Public domain
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documenting the New Croton Dam and the Aqueduct. The record for this specific item is here . Click the images to enlarge them. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window…
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Of all the people who recorded the unbridled joy New Yorkers felt when the Croton Aqueduct opened in October 1842, few captured it as eloquently as Maria Lydia Child, whose poem Thanksgiving Day , was set to music and is known…
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This is an often photographed view of the New Croton Dam, but this particular image from 1912 captured an automobile driving along the road which once ran across what is now the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. For an equally romantic…
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original Croton Dam, the New Croton Dam and the entire aqueduct system. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share…
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even published the letters of regret from all four men in his book, A memoir of the construction, cost, and capacity of the Croton Aqueduct . . . together with an account of the civic celebration of the fourteenth October, 1842 . . . 3 The…
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…These are ventilators of the aqueduct; some of them are quite ornamental, as in the case of the one at Sing Sing, others are simple round towers, and every third one has a square base with a door
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…The huge stone structure was a major contributor to the enormous jump in the final cost of the Aqueduct to $9.5 million. When Douglass took over as chief engineer of the Croton project in June 1835, his first task…
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As we noted in a previous post , the poet and social activist Lydia Maria Child recorded the unbridled joy New Yorkers felt when the Croton Aqueduct opened in 1842. The arrival of the “clean, sweet, abundant water” also inspired her…
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…The firm took the name Arcade from the aqueduct arch spanning the valley.
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…Here’s a fine example of the medal produced for the Croton Water Celebration, when what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct opened to public use on October