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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Having thus brought our narrative of the progress of the work to its conclusion, it remains to present, as promised, a connected view of the aqueduct, its chief and most
striking constructions, its
general plan, and such other details as…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…CROTON AQUEDUCT. 273
Chamber of Commerce. Board of Trade. Historical, Philosophical, Philological and other Scientific Societies. Members of the various Societies for the Promotion of the Fine Arts. A Life Boat, built by C. S. Ingersoll. Band of Music. Company…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…MORRIS, and sung in front of the Park Fountain, by the Members of the
New York Sacred Music Society, on the completion of the
Croton Aqueduct.
CELEBRATED OCTOBER XIV, MDCCCXLII.
Gushing from this living fountain,
Music pours a falling strain…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The surplus water not used for the supply of the
fountain flows down the mountain-side forming a beautiful
cascade.
The cities of Europe abound in fountains which in their
arrangement furnish beautiful designs and are ornamented
with specimens of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Legislature also passed a law authorizing the construction of the aqueduct
through lands belonging to the State, at Sing Sing. In their Report of 9th January, 1837, the Commissioners reiterate the account of
CROTONAdUEDUCT. 143
their difficulties in conciliating…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…been an ample provision for all
navigation that it is necessary to provide for, the plan of passing the aqueduct by means
of a tunnel, would have been divested of a large portion of the difficulty and expense, and
could…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The
contractors for the new dam in the Croton, for instance, were bound to have it in such an
advanced stage by 1st November of this year, as to throw two feet water from the lake
into the aqueduct. The…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
it is more apt to become contaminated with lead from roofs, gutters, cisterns, and
water pipes. To purify rain water and render it useful, for the delicate purposes of
chemical experiment, Morveau recommends dropping into it a little barytic water…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
* Containing 4.05 grains of solid matter to the gallon, or about one 18,000 part.
pipes have been highly recommended by our first chemists, and other men of science, as furnishing an effectual safeguard against the corroding effects of…
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.
…The " High Bridge," or aqueduct over which the waters of the Croton
How from the main land to Manhattan Island, crosses the Island at One
Hundred and Seventy-Third Street. It is built of granite. The aqueduct
is fourteen hundred…
NYPL / Detroit Publishing Company
High Bridge from the East — Postcard (1898)
Postcard view of the High Bridge from the east, showing the Croton Aqueduct bridge spanning the Harlem River. By 1898, the High Bridge had been carrying water for 50 years and was one…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The whole length of aqueduct
now under contract, extending from the Croton to the Harlem River, is THIRTY-THREE
MILES.
Owing to a turn-out for wages early in the season, the work on the line between the
dam and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…on the 4th of July, 1842, to open the gates of the reservoir and fill these very pipes and
"
this very tank, not from quart bottles," but from the Croton River, passing through the
whole line of the Croton Aqueduct !
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Garcilasso observes, " there were five fountains of water, which
ran from divers places through pipes of gold. The cisterns
were some of stone, and others of gold and silver in which
they washed their sacrifices, as the solemnity of the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The mortar used in these side walls is formed by
mixing clean sharp sand with hydraulic lime, using the proportions of three parts of the sand to one of the lime ; and
these are thoroughly mixed and incorporated before they…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
But this malady occurs at Sumatra, where ice
and snow are never seen ; while, on the contrary, the disease is quite unknown in
Chili and Thibet, although the rivers of these countries are chiefly supplied by the
melting of the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Nitrate of silver is the best test for the presence of chloride of soda or
common salt. By adding a small quantity of this to the common well water of
New-York, a copious, white, flocculent precipitate is immediately formed…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The springs thus
found were surrounded with a brick wall, and in their course augmented by several
small streams, and the united waters were carried to Rome by an aqueduct of about
fourteen miles, of which about three-fourths of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Four three feet pipes, according to the calculation of the engineers, will deliver 49,843,984
gallons of water every twenty-four hours which is about the quantity calculated to be
;
delivered by the aqueduct, and nearly the average quantity…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…From means
thus acquired, was this aqueduct probably provided for.
These were the two great works of republican Rome, but they were cemented by
the blood of slavery, and defrayed by the spoils robbed from the conquered and the
oppressed…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…CROTON AQUEDUCT. 265
12. Common Council of Troy.
13. do do Jersey City, Newark, Elizabethtown, New Brunswick,
Princeton, and Trenton.
14. Officers of the Corporation.
15. County Officers.
16. Enginers and Officers of the Water Works.
17. Foreign Consuls.
THIRD…
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
License: Public domain
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct intersects the reservoir at right angles with its westerly line, and 252
feet south of the north-westerly corner.
At this point a gate chamber is constructed, with one set of gates to pass the water
into the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
If the test produce
this effect on the water before, but not after boiling, the iron is in the state
of carbonate ; if after, as well as before, in that of sulphate. Tea may be substituted for galls, to which…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct of Lisbon has been long admired for the excellence of its construction,
and, in point of magnitude, is not inferior to any similar edifice which the ancients have
left us. That part of it situated in the valley…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Commencing at the Croton dam, on a level 40 feet above the river, which descends from
this point to tide-water, at the average rate of 25 feet to the mile, the grade of the aqueduct was compelled to encounter…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
White, a Civil Engineer of repute, to examine the several
sources from which a supply was likely to be obtained, and
to furnish correct surveys and profiles of the heights and
depressions of the country through which the water must…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
They are
about 20 feet wide on the top, and increase in thickness towards the base by a slope on both sides : the outside face of
the Reservoir bank has a slope of 1 foot horizontal to 3 feet
vertical…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/05/19/driving-to-the-dam-1912/
Driving to the Dam, 1912
Driving to the Dam, 1912
This historical post features a 1912 photograph showing "an automobile driving along the road which once ran across what is now the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail." The image captures an…
Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
Croton Dam Bridge Towers Under Construction
A black-and-white photograph showing the construction of bridge towers for the Croton Dam, likely part of the Croton Aqueduct system. The towers are made of metal and have cables attached. The scene…