edit ] Croton Aqueduct Gate House List of National Historic Landmarks in New York National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Westchester County, New

Scenic Landmark" . CityLand . Retrieved April 20, 2024 . ^ Descriptive display at the weir chamber in Ossining, New York in the Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park. Accessed: September 6, 2010 References [ edit ] Chazin, Daniel D., ed. (2005).

…They became landmarks along the aqueduct trail and several survive today. From Harper's, December 1860. Date: December 1860 Type: engraving Subjects: Croton Aqueduct, ventilator tower, stone structure Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons License: Public domain

photos, 7 color transparencies, 3 data pages, 3 photo caption pages v t e New York City's water supply system Croton reservoirs New Croton Boyds Corner Middle Branch East Branch / Bog Brook Titicus West Branch Amawalk Muscoot Cross River…

…Old Croton Aqueduct, National Register of Historic Places (1974) 4. Old Croton Aqueduct running from Croton to New York City, National Historic Landmark in (1992) 5. The High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, National Register of Historic Places (1972) 6…

High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct — Stereoscopic View (1864) Stereoscopic photograph of the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River, from the Robert N. Dennis collection. Stereoscopic views were the 3D photography of the Victorian era — viewed through a…

million US gallons (340,000 m 3 ) a day to the city via the Old Croton Aqueduct . [ 5 ] To meet escalating water needs, the Aqueduct Commission of the City of New York ordered construction of a new Croton system in…

…Conclusion New York City Partners: Citywide New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation is in charge of the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway, the segment of the Croton aqueduct that runs…

…They show the locations of the different reservoirs within the Croton watershed after the New Croton Dam was completed and their relative elevations. Click the image

Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct , New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843. View looking east, showing the smaller arch over what is today Aqueduct Street on the far left. F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct , New York: Wiley…

…1890s Contemporary print from original glass plate negative The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Gloeckner Newby Co., New Croton Dam, 1912 Photograph; 2V2X 9V2 Inches Collection of ESL Information Services, Engineering Societies' Library, New York, NY The New Aqueduct Passing…

…It is 166 feet above mean tide-water at New York, and pours into the aqueduct from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. Three ventilator designs used on the Croton Aqueduct The Croton

…Helen Tower Wilson Theophlius Schramke, Description of the New York Croton Aqueduct In Elfish, Qarman and French, 1846 Book with 20 plates. New York and Berlin: printed by Mundt Court;esy of William Lee Frost Cathleen Polgreen, Aqueduct Overseer's…

at the Wayback Machine . Yorktown Historical Society. Retrieved on July 11, 2007. ^ Tompkins, Christopher R: The Croton Dams and Aqueduct , page 2. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7385-0455-6 . ^ "History and Geology of the NYC Aqueduct System"

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

across the bottom from Croton Dam. One of the many interesting things about this map is that the New Croton Dam—then in the planning stages—is shown at the Quaker Bridge location. For more information on the Quaker Bridge…

remained in service until 1955. In 1987 the northernmost portion was reopened to provide water to Ossining . [ 15 ] Reused portions [ edit ] Old Croton Trail [ edit ] Old Croton Trail Length 26.2 mi (42.2 km) Location Westchester County, New York ,

…Government establishes National Heritage Areas New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation purchases 26.2 miles (in Westchester County) of original 41-mile Old Croton Aqueduct from New York City M. Paul Friedberg designs Delacorte Fountain for…

Croton Aqueduct Bridge (High Bridge) — King's Handbook (1893) The High Bridge across the Harlem River from King's Handbook of New York City (1893). Shows the bridge in its original stone-arch form — a Roman-style aqueduct bridge that…

…near New Croton Dam (these are largely submerged or modified due to the construction of the dam) #4-#8 : Croton-on-Hudson to Ossining (some of them in wooded sections of the trail) #9 : Ossining (Spring & Everett St.;

route of the aqueduct. It crosses the lawn of the Lyndhurst estate, following the aqueduct's easement. The trail enters New York City on the eastern side of Van Cortlandt Park ; [ 7 ] the aqueduct runs through the Bronx under Aqueduct…

looking south, from the Putnam County border to New York City and beyond. The accompanying article said the map “clearly presents the course of the Croton River, the location of Muscoot, Croton, and the proposed Quaker Bridge dams, and in…

…It is 166 feet above mean tide-water at New York, and pours into the aqueduct from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. Three ventilator designs used on the Croton Aqueduct The Croton

…For a before-and-after bird’s eye view of the flooding of the Croton River Valley after construction of the New Croton Dam see this previous post . A high resolution image of the Taylor map is available at the

…Farley The Old Croton aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Yonkers, New York 1992 Xhi s One 7WXT-: 5F-QFG4 figure 2: Fayette B. Tower, View above the Dam, in Illustrations of the Croton…

…Indeed, in 1836 the New York Legislature reported that “the bridge over the Croton river upon [the Highland Turnpike] has been entirely carried away.” High Bridge , the covered bridge that

“Wagon Bridge” in 1898. New York State eventually removed the old span, replacing it with the “Van Cortlandt Bridge” in 1922. This was the main route into Croton for more than 40 year until it was demolished in 1964—despite…

…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…

fascinating aspect of the map is that it shows two bridges across the lower Croton River that didn’t actually exist in 1884, when the map was made. Moving from left to right the bridges shown are: Hudson River Railroad…

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