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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct

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…A proposed architectural competition poster calling for a new fountain design for the 119th Street Gatehouse Proposed Interpretation by Typology Keepers’ Houses Although six keepers’ houses once existed along the length of the Old Croton Aqueduct, only the keeper’s…

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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.

…All the different supports of the aqueduct are of the same kind of masonry, formed of small, rough, squared stones, laid in a thick bed of mortar, with the apparent faces of reticulated work. This kind of masonry was bound…

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Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct

Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.

River into the City of New-York, no city in the world of equal size, will surpass it in salubrity. To the operation of the same cause, we may doubtless look with confidence for a decided improvement in personal comeliness…

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…The New York Times announces the completion of the South Gatehouse at the new Central Park Reservoir and invites the public to visit and marvel at this feature of the “Croton Aqueduct, which, with these latest connections, presents a specimen…

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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct

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…PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR THE OLD CROTON AQUEDUCT AND THE Structure of its Engineering Department figure 10, above: Portrait of Major David Bates Douglass, contemporary print from glass plate negative Courtesy The Archives. Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith…

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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.

…The natural rock formed the southern abutment, and the aqueduct being on this side, the water was conducted to the gateway at its head, by a tunnel, cut 180 feet through the rock this; allowed the gateway to be located…

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…By the 19th century, farming, shipping, ship-building and flour and brick manufacturing had become the predominant industries, along with work on the railroad and construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct. Etching of…

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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

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.

…Old Croton Aqueduct, 95,000,000 gallons; Bronx River Conduit, 28,000,000 gallons; New Croton Aqueduct, 300,000,000 gallons-- total, 425^000,000 gallons. With the completion of the works now in their last stages, the supply obtainable…

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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct

King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.

…been an ample provision for all navigation that it is necessary to provide for, the plan of passing the aqueduct by means of a tunnel, would have been divested of a large portion of the difficulty and expense, and could…

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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct

King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.

…point." He then proposes to deliver a sufficient supply of pure water for all present purposes, " in a permanent aqueduct, ot sufficient capacity, at the base of Harlem heights, below the surface on the north side, ready and suitable to…

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…This fountain is furnished with water by the Aqueduct called Aqua Paolo ; and it runs from the basin, in a very large stream into several canals, whence it is employed to work various corn, paper, and other mills, as well…

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…He proposed to take the waters of the Croton at Pine's bridge, which he stated to be 183 feet above the level of the Hudson ; to conduct the water in an open Aqueduct, follow- ing the line of the…

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under the whole length of the Aqueduct like one continuous stone. It attains a degree of hardness which gives it the appearance of the conglome- rate bearing the name of Pudding-stone, and is an article of the greatest importance…

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…This Reservoir may be considered the termination of the Croton Aqueduct, and is distant from the Fountain Reser- voir on the Croton, forty and a half miles. The whole cost of the work, exclusive of the pipes in the city…

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…They argued that they understood the public to be synonymous with the interests of the people of the whole state and not, as in the case of the Aqueduct, with the exclusive interests of the people of the county of…

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…The objections to this project were, that it would be going into another state, that an Aqueduct bridge over the Hudson River would obstruct its navigation, and iron pipes laid across the bed of the 71 river would be exposed…

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…it would be desirable to fill in the earth again to the natural form, also where the line of Aqueduct intersected villages, and using the open channel with slope walls for the residue of the distance. In regard to iron…

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…For instance, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation use their own logo on signs, while many signposts in Yonkers and the Bronx have only the letters OCA (Old Croton Aqueduct) on them. Our goal is to enable people to…

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…Lee concluded that without the new aqueduct, the City's water sup- ply would have soon been inadequate, for the quality had been steadily deteriorating for decades: figure 7. above: The Tea Water

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…Formal documentation includes measured drawings, many of which have already been created by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) for the Old Croton Aqueduct; photography; archival research; written reports; and historic images and drawings. The Secretary of the Interior’s…

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…Lee concluded that without the new aqueduct, the City's water sup- ply would have soon been inadequate, for the quality had been steadily deteriorating for decades: figure 7. above: The Tea Water Pump at Roosevelt and Chatham Streets. engraving…

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…The ratio worsened in the 1840s and 1850s after the opening of the Aqueduct to about 40 per 1,000, and in the cholera year of 1849 it surpassed 60 per 1,000. Of course, this did not affect all…

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…The estimated cost for a dam across the Croton River, the aqueduct, and reservoirs was $4,150,000, with an additional $1,262,000 for distributing pipes. They esti- mated the annual income, based on 30,000 customers, to be…

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…This was the city which built the Croton Aqueduct. The lack of an adequate water supply obviously did not hinder the spectacular growth of the metropolis, but the citizens of the nation's largest city had to endure a dirty…

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