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Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html
…last night for the purpose of discussing some reasonable methods of settling the Croton dam strike, but the meeting ended in a riot. The disturbing cause was the presence of a number of alleged Italian anarchists. STATE LAWS. Governor Roosevelt…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…From Manhattan Valley the Aqueduct passes through a tunnel, and following its course the next work of interest is at Clendinning Valley, which is thirty-seven miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct…
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miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…
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…It was Major Douglass who determined that a gravity aqueduct could be built from a dam on the Croton River to the north bank of the Harlem River at a constant slope of 13V4 inches per mile. Having set the…
croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt
…A public informational meeting concerning the remedial program and the Title 3 State Assistance Program was held at the CrOton Village Municipal Building. September, IYYV: A public informational meeting was held at the Croton Village Municipal Building to present the…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…The surrounding country, is well wooded, and watered by several
streams tributary to the Croton. The principal of these are the Myanos
the Pepemighting, misnamed the Kisco, the Cisqua or Beaver dam, and
the Peppeneghek or Cross River. Bedford was…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Leaving the valley of the Croton we come out upon the Hudson at the head of the "great waters of the Tappan Zee," beyond which the early inhabitants of New-Amster- dam dared not to voyage without first " settling their…
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…Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842),
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…The demands of the men, however, was 87'/2-100 cents per day ....^^ The contractor refused the raise in pay, causing the laborers to quit in a body, and march in a "tumultuous manner" from the Croton Dam to Sing…
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.
…Morris with his men forcibly removed a portion of the dam, so
that the " Nonpariel " floated across. From that time a draw was always kept in the bridge,
but for many years the passage was very difficult, the tide being…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Rejecting the Bronx River as yielding an inadequate supply, the Commissioners proposed tap- ping the Croton watershed. The estimated cost for a dam across the Croton River, the aqueduct, and reservoirs was $4,150,000, with an additional $1,262…