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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Commissioners, who had in vain sought the instruction of the Common Counquestion, of a high or low bridge, and who had at last, on their own recil on this vexed
sponsibility, decided in favor of the low or syphon…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…cost of the aqueduct, from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir
inclusive, will be nearly 9,000,000 of dollars,
New- York, 27th July, 1842.
The unfinished portions of the work, chiefly on the Harlem bridge, have been steadily…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…is the Aqueduct bridge over the road from Tarrytown to Sing-Sing ; before it reaches this place it passes through three tunnels, over high foundation walls, and encounters deep excavations. Plate XIV. is a view of this bridge : it is…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…By a resolution of your Board, subsequent to the one before mentioned, my attention is called to a suggestion for a wooden bridge, resting on timber piers, sunk in the
river, and filled with stone to high water, on which…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…155
The Commissioners were in hopes, as they had abandoned the idea of crossing the
Harlem river with an aqueduct bridge, that they would have been enabled to recommend
the building of a similar structure for carrying the water over…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…McCullough,
Black & Co., early in the spring, under contract, to raise the same so high by the 1st of
November following, as to throw at least two feet of water into the tunnel of the aqueduct. This requirement of their…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The high bridge over the Harlem River, reappears in this report, as a difficult, costly,
and not necessary work and inasmuch as the plan agreed upon by the former Commissioners, was not to continue the grade line of the aqueduct…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The plan, however,
may be modified, both in those particulars as well as others, if deemed expedient by your
honorable body, and a high bridge may be substituted, instead of the syphon at the Harlem river and Manhattanville, by incurring…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…It is 115
feet high, and was built under the Emperor Justinian, A. D.
527. It has two ranges of arches, one above the other, and
the Aqueduct supported upon the second. These Aqueducts
are in some parts unlike those…
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…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…the bridge was about 40 feet high and the perpendicular height of the Aqueduct above it was 140 feet. Nine leaden pipes of about 8 inches interior diameter and one inch thick were laid upon the inclined planes and across…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Bridge (High Bridge), C.1839-40 Watercolor and ink on paper In "Letter Book of John B. Jervis" (vol. II) Reproduction, courtesy of the Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY Lt. Theophllus Schramke, ProHle of Lower Part of Croton Aqueduct, c…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…HARLEM RIVER BRIDGE. The width of the river at the place where the aqueduct line crosses it, is 620 feet at
ordinary high water mark as has been before stated, the shore on the southern side is a
;
bold rock…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Significance(s) Interpretation Sign OLD CROTON DAM WASTE WEIR 1838-1841 (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct Accessed by a bridge, the overflow weir was protected by a small stone building. Inside, two sets of gates were capable of drawing…
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.
…Between the Farmers' Bridge and the High Bridge
commissioners are about erecting a new bridge, spanning the stream and extending from Aqueduct Avenue
on the Westchester shore to the Tenth Avenue on the
Manhattan Island aide. This bridge is to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The high bridge I have heretofore endeavored to avoid, as a work of great expense, and attended with much difficulty in its
execution. From the considerations before detailed, I have however come to the conclusion, that under the modificationnow presented…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…he en- closed the town with new walls, built baths, and probably the Aqueduct of the bridge of Gard ("pont du Gard") for bring- ing water to them. This Aqueduct is nearly thirty miles in length, forming, in its course…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…Part of this ancient construction, consisting of two arches
substantially built, still exists, near the modern Aqueduct.
The Aqueduct bridge over the valley of Arcueil has twentyfive arches, is 72 feet high and 1,200 feet in length.
In the…
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.
" hydraulic stone masonry, connected with an earthen embankment,"
the embankment being two hundred and fifty feet long, sixty-five
feet high at its extreme height, two hundred and fifty feet wide at
the base, and fifty-five feet wide at…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Numerous articles about the Aqueduct, which appeared in magazines ranging from Harper's Weekly to Scientific American after 1850, are embellished with not only the types of scenes described above but also — beginning with the enlargement of High Bridge in…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…with the line of Aqueduct required
the arch to be built askew ; the arch lies in the direction of
the road-way, having the ends in planes parallel with the
direction of the Aqueduct. This bridge is worthy of notice…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Marcius
Baldwin, Loami,
Martineau, John, 127, 33, 47, 76
Birdsall, Benjamin, 272, 99
Morrissania Creek 93
Bridge, Quaker, Newcomen's Engine, 86
Bridge, High, .... 150, 6, 64, 5, 8, 9, 75, 81, 3, 191. 24, New York Waterworks, 103
209…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
HARLEM RIVER BRIDGE. The width of the river at the place where the aqueduct line crosses it, is 620 feet at
ordinary high water mark as has been before stated, the shore on the southern side is a
;
bold rock…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…The Pont du Gard was a component of the Nîmes Aqueduct, a large gravity- fed water system built between 40–60 A.D to supply fresh water to the ancient city of Nîmes. The design of the High Bridge component…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…piers, more or less high ; it was
upon the third range that the water channel was formed according to some antiquaries. According to the measurement of a French engineer, the height of this aqueduct
bridge is about 157 feet above…
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.
In such circumstances it is highly
improbable that any change in the plan for the aqueduct bridge
would have been made if the people of Westchester had not compelled itby their aggressive acts. ( >n the 3d of May, 1839, the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…For
154 MEMOIR OF THE
crossing the Manhattan Valley, three lines are designated, and an estimate furnished for
carrying the aqueduct on a high bridge from the north to the south grade. The first
line runs diagonally from 128th street…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This plan, it will be perceived, has, in its general appearance, a
great degree of similarity to what has, for distinction, been called the high bridge. It
will, however, in consequence of its being of less height, and adapted to…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…75 feet high. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Current Designation(s) SING SING BRIDGE c 1840 Plate 22-2, Old Croton Aqueduct Spanning 20 feet the Sing Sing Bridge arches over a…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The
bridge supporting this Aqueduct is remarkable for the slender form of the piers and their great height; being only
ten and a half feet thick and two hundred and fifty feet
high to the base of the arches. This…