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…The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation maintains the Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, which is a linear park running along twenty-six miles of the Old Croton Aqueduct’s path. In New York City…
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…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide 179TH STREET HIGH SERVICE WORKS 1894 (Demolished) Plate 29B-, New Croton Aqueduct Appendix 135TH STREET GATEHOUSE 1884-1890 (Adaptive Reuse - Harlem Stage) Plate 30-12, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Sign For more information, see…
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Crailo Fort Montgomery Fort Ontario Ganondagan Grant Cottage Herkimer Home Hyde Hall John Brown Farm John Burroughs Memorial (Woodchuck Lodge) John Hay Homestead Johnson Hall Knox's Headquarters Lorenzo New Windsor Cantonment Olana Old Croton
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"Children of Darkness" . The New York Times . Retrieved September 15, 2009 . ^ "Aqueduct Walk Highlights: NYC Parks" . www.nycgovparks.org . Retrieved June 8, 2022 . ^ Moloney, Síle (April 19, 2024). "LPC Designates Aqueduct Walk as Bronx's First
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U.S. Trailheads Van Cortlandt Park , New York Croton Gorge Park , New York Use Hiking , Biking , Jogging Difficulty Easy Season Year round Sights Lyndhurst Hazards Poison ivy , uneven grades, rough or muddy trail surface, at-grade road intersections.
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Library of Congress website . ↩ The tunnel was opened in 1890 and construction of the New Croton Dam began in 1892. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share…
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…Description of the New York Croton Aquedua in English, German and French. New York and Berlin: printed by Mundt, 1846. Society for Industrial Archaeology. Newsletter, vol. V, no.l (Jan. 1976). Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New…
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Aqueduct Walk is a community park in the Bronx , New York City, running between Kingsbridge Road and Tremont Avenue . [ 27 ] Aqueduct Walk is designated as an official New York City scenic landmark . [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Gallery [ edit ] "Shutting off the
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…MEMOIR OF THE
DESCRIPTION OF THE CROTON AdUEDUCT BY J. B. JERVIS,
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE.
The Croton Aqueduct was designed to supply the city of New York with an abundance of pure and wholesome water. It commences about…
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…Created by the New York State legislature in 1905 to replace the Board of Aqueduct Commissioners. Croton Aqueduct Board: Superseded the State Water Commission; The first board was established in 1833 with the task of providing New York City with…
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houses had been connected to the system by 1844, the Croton water had already dramatically improved both domestic hygiene and interior design. Baths and running water were being built in the private homes of wealthy New Yorkers, and public bathing
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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…New-York has accomplished when it
;
particularly
is considered that this is only one of the parts which make
up the whole. From Clendinning Valley the Aqueduct soon reaches the
Receiving Reservoir which is thirty-eight miles from the
Croton…
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…The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to the distributing reser- voir is 40.562 miles — to wit: ^ Masonry conduit in Westchester county 32.880 [Ditto ditto] on New-York Island 4.187 Total Length 37.067 Receiving reservoir…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…MEMOIR
CROTON AQUEDUCT.
MEMOIR
CROTON AQUEDUCT. AT A very early day the want of a sufficient supply, and a convenient distribution
of good water, was felt by the citizens of New- York.
Before the declaration of independence, considerable expenditures had…
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…system constructed as part of the New York City water supply system between 1837 and 1842. The aqueducts , which were among the first in the United States , carried water by gravity 41 miles (66 km) from the Croton River in
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great acclamation from the citizens of New York City. The High Bridge was not completed until 1848. Notes 1. Charles King, A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct (New York, 1843), p.220. 2. See…
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…Typologies Shafts Shafts are a building typology introduced to the New Croton Aqueduct conduit. These structures filled the niche of the Old Croton Aqueduct’s ventilators in providing circulation to the water underneath. More importantly, they also provided access for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…new Board came in, as the incumbents were familiar with the subject, and it
would necessarily require some time for their successors to become so. No decision, however, was made. In August an ordinance was adopted, organising
the Croton Aqueduct…
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…Tower's book Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (1843), implied that the Aqueduct, while bringing New York City the necessary water to grow into a teaming metropolis, fit harmoniously into pastoral ideals of the landscape and, in fact, enhanced it…
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the home of James Bremner, the principal superintendent of the Aqueduct, north of New York City. The house is a contributing feature of the aqueduct trail, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992. (Read more about the Keeper…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Engineer's Office, 1st division Croton Aqueduct,
Sing Sing, October 11, 1842. GENTLEMEN :
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, and to signify my acceptance, of the
invitation to join with the Common Council of the city of New…
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Scene Below the Croton Dam — Harper's Magazine (1860)
Engraving from T. Addison Richards' article 'The Croton Aqueduct' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1860. Shows the dramatic scenery below the Old Croton Dam with water cascading over the…
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in a box (shown below) along with puzzles of other New York landmarks—the Bethesda Fountain, St. Paul’s Church, the statue of Washington in Union Square—and puzzles for coach, yacht, engine and other words. Selchow was one of…
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Highland Turnpike Bridge is next and was long-gone by 1884. This bridge was first built circa 1812 as part of the Highland Turnpike, which ran through the Hudson Highlands. Because bridge construction was still primitive in the early 1800s…
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a small boat, the Croton Maid) and emerged at the Harlem River 22 hours later. The water eventually filled two above-ground reservoirs – on the present sites of the Great Lawn in Central Park and the New York Public Library…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the Croton Aqueduct, and the works connected therewith, and distributing the water throughout the city, shall be diverted from such object ;
and no item of expenditure hereafter to be made by the Corporation of the city of New
York, and…
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…be the Croton!
The article introduces a poem by Lydia Maria Child celebrating the Croton Aqueduct's opening in 1842. Child, described as "renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice," wrote "The New-York Boy…