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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.
…It was
to the Croton River, where some were killed and others driven
usefulness as a spy
months before Crosby recovered, and it was then plain that his days of
and was appointed a subwere past. He ioined Captain Philip…
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.
…Sir Henry Clinton came down and
tured Forts Clinton and Montgomery."
The territory below Verplanck's Point, extending to the mouth of
the Croton River, was originally bought from the Indians in part
by one Cornelius Van Bursum, of New…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The simplicity and unornamented style of its architecture, perfect, however, in its
proportions, and just in every point of its design, marks
the very character of these works of Agrippa. The waters about the colony of Nemansis, from the disturbed…
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…The Harmon/South Riverside/Harmon shopping area is located at the approach to the train station from Croton Point Avenue, with access to the nearby Harmon residential area. The customer base for each of these commercial centers is local, drawing…
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…jogging and walking trails to connect to the north cove to the north, and to the county trail system running from Croton Point Park north along the waterfront. • Visitors Center: conversion of the small building owned by CSX into a…
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.
…Verplanck's Point was named for Philip Ver-
ARISTOCRATIC
FAMILIES
was an expert knowledge of surveying-. By articles of agreement entered into by the Van Cortlandt heirs in November, 1730, Philip
Verplanck was appointed to survey and lay out the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…To adopt a wooden
structure at the most important point, in regard to its magnitude and expense, would
certainly be a great departure from all other work on the line of aqueduct and to the
;
undersigned it does not appear…
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…Croton Point Park a. Respond To and Expand Upon LWRP Objectives The Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, adopted in 1992, describes specific state and local coastal zone policies in detail, and outlines the following overall objectives for Croton-on-Hudson’s…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…such as gravel, placed between two impervious strata, such as clay secondly, the perco-
;
lation of the water through the pervious stratum, from a point higher than that to which
it is required to rise. The basin of Paris is…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The stones not meeting the necessary requirements for further modification became hearth and boiling stones or were put to some other crude utilitarian use, such as hammers, anvils, and mullers. In the Park area…
NYSAA (1974)
…Top point is from the Devereux site on the Sound. Others are from the Piping Rock site at the mouth of the Croton River. The Devereux point and the white quartz point just below it are fluted on both faces…
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.
…No new village was incorporated between 1830 and 1810. .This
decade is memorable for the projection of the first railway enterprise in which Westchester County was interested, ami the inception
and approximate completion of the grand Croton Aqueduct. The New…
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…Wharton (1814-1862), Works of the West Point Foundry from the Head of the Ravine (Cold Spring, New York), November 1832 Ink on paper in "Thomas K. Wharton Diary 1830-1834 (p.205) Reproduction, courtesy Rare Books and manuscripts Division…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] For the October 27 workshop, it was suggested that concentration on the first three or four main sub-divisions would be desirable. (Editors note: a second conference was held on October 25 and will…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…They have, therefore, deemed it their duty to ascertain
by actual survey, whether a dam may not be raised at some point nearer the mouth of the
river, than that proposed by their report of 1833, from which might be…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] A further general workshop was scheduled for October 27. A suggestion by Dr. Ralph Solecki that a representative Hudson River Valley sampling would be desirable for the Metropolitan Chapter, to be housed at Columbia…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Mecca. Stones believed impressed with the footprint of Gautama Buddha were considered sacred. Whole mountains such as the Greek Mount Olympus is an example of the ancient belie f in the residence of the…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Jenkins, Stephen, The Story of the Bronx, (1912), G. P. Putnams Sons, New York and London. Kaeser, Edward J., The Archery Range Site, A Preliminary Report, The Bulletin , New York State Archeological Association, No…
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…the Croton, American civil engineering was in the process of devel- oping standards and rules of conduct so necessary to the forma- tion and recognition of any profession. In the 1830s, the United States Military Academy at West Point, New…
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…The construction of the Croton Aqueduct, independent of the service it provided New York, was a turning point in the history of Westchester County in the 19th-century; in conjunction with the railroad, it radically trans- formed Westchester's relationship…
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…The federal, state and county lists of historic places, as well as the work of the Croton Historical Society, provide a valuable starting point and can be expanded to identify places of local importance. For the property owner, historic preservation…
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…This area is zoned C2, and is bisected by Croton Point Avenue, which connects it to the nearby train station. The C2 district along North Riverside was recently rezoned to C1 zoning, reflecting its scale and building type (higher effective…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Bert Salwen of Metropolitan Chapter, who is now teaching at Bennington College, made the July issue of American Antiquity with his "Sea Levels and Archaeology in the Long Island Sound Area." The abstract in…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] association publication committee, or to the Editor, Louis Brennan, 39 Hamilton Avenue, Ossining, N. Y. No. 26 November 1962 3 American archaeology has to be re-thought out, and that modest tool, the chopper…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…expecting that it would be accepted
without a full development, but merely to bring the subject to a tangible point." He
then proposes to deliver a sufficient supply of pure water for all present purposes, " in a
permanent aqueduct, ot…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] At the Archery Range site, an unmodified stone of duck like form, partly polished as if by handling, was recovered from a feast pit adjacent to a burial at- 6 THE BULLETIN tributed to…
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Obviously, the terms to be used and the subclassification of the system would need further study by the committee. And obviously, also, similar systems for pottery and other artifacts as separated by function, as…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…s Point," and ceased to make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere.*
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have drop[)ed down the river, still further," probably
to the mouth of the Croton-ri…
Brinton, Willard C. Graphic Presentation. New York: Brinton Associates, 1939. Internet Archive: graphicpresentat00brinrich. Brinton's 526-page magnum opus. Page 162 reproduces his own 1921 postcard map lobbying for the Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway crossing Croton Dam, with a caption crediting the map with helping secure the route's adoption.
…Chapter 19
GUIDE AND ROUTE MAPS
o
ne purpose of guide and route maps is to show details which
might be helpful in planning moves from one point to another. The
form of guide and route maps is well known…
Brinton, Willard Cope. Graphic Presentation. New York: Brinton Associates, 1939.
…Chapter 19
GUIDE AND ROUTE MAPS
o
ne purpose of guide and route maps is to show details which
might be helpful in planning moves from one point to another. The
form of guide and route maps is well known…