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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The
sand and rock within the coffer dam will then be excavated to the proper level of foundation of the masonry ;
in the progress of which the bottom of the coffer, below the frame,
will require to be secured by…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
…A rainbow is visible in the mist below the main waterfall. In the foreground, people are standing on a path overlooking the falls.
Date: 1843
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: lithograph
Subjects: waterfalls, rainbow, trees, people
Source: NYPL, Illustrations…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The great increase in the cost of the work is due principally to the four above de- scribed additions and modifications namely : the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The line cuts a small section of marble of inferior quality, about two miles below the Croton dam. In running through the State farm
at Sing Sing, it passes a few hundred feet
(mostly by a tunnel) in a marble…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST
DATE
STAMPED BELOW
AN INITIAL PINE OP 25 CENTS
WILL. BE ASSESSED FOR FAILURE TO RETURN
THIS BOOK ON THE DATE
DUE. THE PENALTY
Y., 104
Hudson, Proposal to Dam 131
Hunter John, Water…
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.
…Not having
time to visit the fountain reservoir, I have availed myself of the pencil
services of a friend, in giving a sketch of the dam from a point just
below it.
The Croton aqueduct runs parallel with the Iludson…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…OF DAM , SHOWING CORE WALL REMOVED AND ITS DEFECTIVE LIME STONE FOUNDATION , WHICH HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DAM . AK GATE HOUSE . CHAMBERS TO BE REMODELED AND REINFORCED in ordinary cases , where the wall below the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…reach the valley below . On Dec. 18 , 1902 , on the writer's recom- mendation the Aqueduct Commissioners approved a plan providing for the reinforcement of these walls . The preliminary estimate of the cost to construct the dam under the original…
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
evidence of coffers of specie below. This augur with its bits of silver was
THE HUDSON.
exhibited, and the story believed. A stock company was formed. Shares
were readily taken. The speculator was chief manager. A coffer dam
was…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
Although the contract drawings , upon which the contract was based , indicated " hard rock " at a depth of 75 feet below the bed of the river , yet it was found necessary to excavate the founda- tion pit to a depth of…
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.
…The Renwicks then brought suit in the Superior Court to recover from Morris the damages for
his alleged trespass, but on the trial the judge charged
the jury that the dam as built was a public nuisance
and that any…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
The great increase in the cost of the work is due principally to the four above de- scribed additions and modifications namely : the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The failure of this embankment might not only create a devastating flood in the valley below , but also cause a current above , of such irresistible velocity , as would de- stroy the earthen part of the old Croton dam , thus at…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam .
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…is a view taken from a point below the dam and shows the relative positions of the dam and the gate chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The original channel of the River where the dam is built, X…