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…I mean, you don’t see work like that anymore.” And a third thing that the kids loved on the aqueduct, especially loved, were the ventilators. The ventilators were put in each mile along the pathway of the aqueduct to…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…One of the key times of the year, we took the kids on the aqueduct in the spring and in the fall, and we walked over a period of five school days, not successive but throughout the year. We would…
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views The David Rumsey Map Collection Bridges NYC Carl Oechsner and Marc Cheshire Click on any image to enlarge it! Detail from an 1868 map of Sing Sing with the Aqueduct Arch marked in red. Note the location of the…
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…The satellite image in the middle shows the location of what was the Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir (the six yellow dots—probably baseball fields). The large building in the
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gauged the entire Croton River and his data—particularly his calculation that twenty million gallons of water a day flowed in the river near Pines Bridge—was later used in planning the Croton Aqueduct. 2 The Westchester County Clerk Historical…
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Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, and Carl Oechsner, Croton Friends of History, for their help in analyzing these photographs. ↩︎ The text labels in the photos were added to the negatives in the darkroom so they would appear on every…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The objections to this project
were, that it would be going into another state, that an
Aqueduct bridge over the Hudson River would obstruct
its navigation, and iron pipes laid across the bed of the
river would be exposed to…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…A lifelong resident of the village with a background in history, he “loves to speak about the aqueduct.” For him, the Croton 93 94 were down there before we closed the weir chamber. Unfortunately when I walked to the south…
Library of Congress, Chronicling America
…Poetry celebrating the Croton Aqueduct. Even newspapers in rural Maine covered the Croton water celebration, a month after the event. Coverage appeared as far away as Honolulu, in the Polynesian newspaper, showing the global reach of the story.
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the years,” according to Baldwin, “but he stayed in New York City until his death on December 31, 1874, just six hours after the passing of his wife of 60 years.” Lovett’s Croton Aqueduct Medal was produced in silver…
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
License: Public domain
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when what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct opened to public use on October 14, 1842. See an example of that medal here . A Mystery How did the medal end up buried on Long Island? The Underhills do have…
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…Here’s the perfect follow-up to our recent post on bird’s eye view maps of the Croton Aqueduct—an interactive mashup of an 1836 map of Manhattan, georeferenced
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…the top sloping up
from the buttresses in a plane parallel with the slope of the
embankment covering the Aqueduct above. These culverts
are permanently constructed, and in preparing the plans for
them much skill has been displayed in adapting…
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Bridge, the one that carried the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. Opened in June, 1842, our High Bridge lasted just 37 years—collapsing into the river from neglect in October, 1879. 1 Why was the watch a prized “family…
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…In 1857, two-thirds of all reported deaths were the children of foreign-born parents, and throughout that decade more than half the children died before their fifth birthday.^^ The Croton Aqueduct itself became something of a tourist attrac- tion…
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New Croton Dam, 1906
A 1906 engineering plan depicting the downstream elevation of the New Croton Dam, prepared by the New York City Aqueduct Commission, from the Historic American Engineering Record at the Library of Congress.
Date: Various
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…2 Click the images below to see all the Aqueduct-related images published in the October 22 issue. The 16-inch long woodcut of the parade was
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New Croton Dam, 1906
A 1906 engineering plan depicting the downstream elevation of the New Croton Dam, prepared by the New York City Aqueduct Commission, from the Historic American Engineering Record at the Library of Congress.
Date: Various
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Library of Congress, Music Division (item 2023798259)
…sheet music, Croton Aqueduct
Source: Library of Congress, Music Division (item 2023798259)
License: Public domain
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
…NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
License: Public domain
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
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CROTON AQUEDUCT. Carb. Lime and Magnes., 1 25
Extractive Matter and Loss, 75
Total, 7
No. 3. A pint yielded 4 50
grains composed of
Mur. Soda, 1
Mur. Magnes., - 2
Carb. Lime, 1
Sulph. Lime and Extractive…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
" Frezier says the Indians were very industrious in conveying the waters of the rivers through their fields and to
their dwellings, and that there were still to be seen in many
places Aqueducts formed of earth and stone, and carried…
Library of Congress, Chronicling America (sn85025007)
…newspaper, advertisements, Croton Aqueduct
Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (sn85025007)
License: Public domain
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
License: Public domain
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Rain Water is the purest kind of all natural waters, though subject to some
variations. Thus, when collected in large towns or cities, it is less pure than when
obtained in the country ; moreover it is usually loaded with impurities…
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…According to Christopher Tompkins, author of The Croton Dams and Aqueduct, this image is "especially noteworthy for its accuracy in depicting the excavation."
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2012/12/30/new-croton-dam-construction-1896/
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
" The delightful promenades, groves, and gardens belonging to the Doria family, are interspersed with fountains of
various forms ; besides having a beautiful lake with waterfalls. Statues, antique basso relievos, and small fountains,
adorn a kind of amphitheatre, where a circular…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Alkaline carbonates soften water, decompose all the earthy salts (calcareous
and magnesian carbonates, sulphates, and chlorides) and precipitate the earthy matters. They leave, however, in solution, an alkaline salt, but which does not communicate to water the property of hardness…
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…According to Christopher Tompkins, author of The Croton Dams and Aqueduct, this image is "especially noteworthy for its accuracy in depicting the excavation."
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2012/12/30/new-croton-dam-construction-1896/
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