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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Weston, who has been the engineer of the
Canal companies in this State, and whose abilities are well known, be requested to
examine that river, with the situation of the grounds to be employed in the aqueduct, and
such other…
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.
…The dam required to be raised 40 feet above low
CROTON AQUEDUCT. 207
water in the river and it was an important object to arrange the plan so as to obtain a
;
rock foundation for the masonry. To effect this…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…to the Board of Water Commissioners :
" Since the water was introduced into the '
aqueduct, -the velocity has several times
been ascertained, though not in so perfect a manner as I intend to have it done, as soon
as other duties…
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 origin of the name is to be
found in the word Sint-sinck, the title of a powerful clan of the Mohegan
CROTON AQUEDUCT AT SING SING.
or river Indians, who called this spot Os-sin-ing, from ossin…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…receiving tanks, which are seen near the wall of the city of Lyons, and conducted
the water by an aqueduct to the reservoir, now called the Maison Angclique, This
reservoir was also furnished with the usual opening. The emitting reservoirs…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The water has usually flowed at the depth of two and a quarter feet in the aqueduct,
but has been as- high as three and a half feet, and between the Croton Dam and Sing Sing
waste wier (nearly 8…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/02/26/clean-sweet-abundant-water/
Clean, Sweet, Abundant Water!
Clean, Sweet, Abundant Water!
This article features an excerpt from Maria Lydia Child's Letters from New-York, celebrating the opening of the Croton Aqueduct in October 1842. Child eloquently describes New Yorkers' joy at accessing…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/02/26/clean-sweet-abundant-water/
Clean, Sweet, Abundant Water!
Clean, Sweet, Abundant Water!
This article features an excerpt from Maria Lydia Child's Letters from New-York, celebrating the opening of the Croton Aqueduct in October 1842. Child eloquently describes New Yorkers' joy at accessing…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/20/celebrating-ossinings-double-arch/
…The Double Arch is a granite aqueduct structure spanning the Sing Sing Kill. In 1839, the Westchester Herald called it "the most astonishing specimen of the art and ability of man to be seen in this section."
The article assembles…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
always contains more or less of the sulphate and carbonate of lime, and it generally
contains a trace of common salt, and the usual proportions of air and carbonic acid
gas. The presence of these is detected by subacetate of…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Not far above is the reser\^oir from which
the "old" Croton aqueduct carries the water to the
294 The Hudson River
citv. Its capacity is 100,000,000 gallons a day, but
this supply was found to be inadec…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/20/celebrating-ossinings-double-arch/
…The Double Arch is a granite aqueduct structure spanning the Sing Sing Kill. In 1839, the Westchester Herald called it "the most astonishing specimen of the art and ability of man to be seen in this section."
The article assembles…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/20/celebrating-ossinings-double-arch/
…The Double Arch is a granite aqueduct structure spanning the Sing Sing Kill. In 1839, the Westchester Herald called it "the most astonishing specimen of the art and ability of man to be seen in this section."
The article assembles…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…DODGE, Ass't Ald'n., >
CROTON AQUEDUCT.
From the Consul of Frankfort. The undersigned, Consul of Frankfort on the Main, feels honored by the invitation
of the Honorable Common Council of the city of New York, of the 26th September…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
They are required to be burnt to such a degree of
hardness that they present a cherry red, or brownish color,
and give a clear ringing sound when struck ; and when
broken, must present a compact and uniform texture. All…
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.
…These are ventilators of the aqueduct ;
some of them are quite ornamental, as in the case of the one at Sing Sing,
others are simple round towers, and every third one has a square base,
with a door by which…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…This aqueduct has a course of more
than 13 leagues, or about 33 miles its distance in a right line, is about eight leagues,
;
and its descent from the bridge of the little Varizelle to the Fourviere, is 360 feet…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Caustic potash (potassa fusa) and
slaked lime may be instanced as compounds of water, and basic substances ;
these are therefore called hydrates. The crystallized salts, such as alum, common
salt, sulphate of soda, sulphate of magnesia, borate of soda, (borax…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye-view-of-manhattan/
…The article highlights specific locations relevant to Croton history, including the Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir at Central Park and the Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye…
George Pope Morris, Poems (1853), Project Gutenberg
…God save the Corporation!
Long live the valiant Mayor!
The poem captures the civic importance of the Croton Aqueduct — even in a humorous summer poem, Croton water is the answer to New York's suffering.
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/01/23/the-1842-croton-water-celebration-medal/
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal
This article showcases a commemorative medal created to celebrate the opening of the Old Croton Aqueduct to the public on October 14, 1842. The piece was designed by Robert Lovett, Sr., a prominent American…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/01/23/the-1842-croton-water-celebration-medal/
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal
This article showcases a commemorative medal created to celebrate the opening of the Old Croton Aqueduct to the public on October 14, 1842. The piece was designed by Robert Lovett, Sr., a prominent American…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye-view-of-manhattan/
…The article highlights specific locations relevant to Croton history, including the Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir at Central Park and the Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye-view-of-manhattan/
…The article highlights specific locations relevant to Croton history, including the Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir at Central Park and the Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Legislature very properly refused to accede to propositions such as these, but in
order to quiet apprehensions, that land taken for the Aqueduct might be used for other
purposes, and to insure to the owners, through whose possessions the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…94 crosses the Clendening Valley, and embraces a very heavy stone foundation wall and three arches, or aqueduct bridges, for contemplated streets. This section is about three eighths of a mile long, is about two-thirds
finished, and the contract…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the right, a view of the city of Albany on the left
a distant view of the Erie canal on the front slide, a view of the Erie Canal Aqueduct
at Rochester.
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Stein, relating to the route, modes of construction, and cost
134 MEMOIR OF THfi
thereof, of an aqueduct from the Croton, that on all hands being adopted as the only ad*
visable plan. As in a subsequent part of this…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
solid matters, though amounting to only one half a grain to the gallon. It appears from the above table, that the amount of impurities contained in the
Thames water, exceeds those of the Croton by nearly six fold, and that…