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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Ventilator along the Old Croton Aqueduct’s path Water Towers The Old Croton Aqueduct’s first water tower, built on the Manhattan end of the High Bridge in 1845, was constructed to address issues of water availability in northern Manhattan…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…The bridge supporting this Aqueduct is remarkable for the slen- der 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…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…These bridges and the adjacent work form a very interesting point on the line of Aqueduct. Plate XII. is a view of the Aqueduct at this place : at the left of the picture may be seen the bridge over the…
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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…A covered way
flanked by parallel walls proceeds from the ancient city, to
the bed of a stream now dry, over which there is a remarkable bridge, with a pointed arch 40 feet high, and supported
on one side by…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Aqueduct Bridge for Road-way, ----- 103 Croton Aqueduct at Mill-River, ... - 104 Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook, - - - 105 Croton Aqueduct at Hastings, ... - - 106 Croton Aqueduct at Yonkers, ----- 108 Croton Aqueduct at Harlem River, - - - - - 110 View of the Jet at…
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…In the case of the New Croton Aqueduct, the gatehouse served as the terminus of the conduit and the beginning of the pipe line. An addition to the High Service Works at High Bridge, this somber stone and brick Romanesque…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Jervis appointed Chief Engineer of Croton Aqueduct project Photography invented Old Croton Aqueduct completed (includes structures such as Old Ossining Weir, Archville Bridge, Murray Hill Reservoir, Yonkers Weir, West Burnside Avenue Bridge, Sing Sing Kill Bridge, Ventilators, Clendening Valley Crossing…
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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The plan which was adopted as the most suitable under
all the considerations of economy and security to the work,
was a Low Bridge to support an inverted syphon of iron
pipes and the design of it was as follows…
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.
…city by
the High Bridge and not over a low bridge without a
draw, as was first contemplated. On the 3d of May,
1839, the Legislature passed an act directing the
water commissioners to construct an aqueduct across
the river…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
To make the capacity of the pipes for conveying water equal to that of the aqueduct,
an extra fall of two feet has been given across the bridge, and the aqueduct on the
southern side of the river is constructed…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…From remains of this Aqueduct which are now found at various points along its course, it appears to have required many expensive struc- tures for crossing valleys ; in one instance the Aqueduct bridge was 3,600 feet long, and the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Board of Assistant Aldermen, moreover, as has been seen,
adopted a resolution in favor of the high bridge, but the Commissioners still persevered in
their plan. The contracts were duly entered into, and the reasons of the Commissioners
for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the aqueduct. The next disappointment was in the bridge over the Harlem, arisin g
from not finding, as the soundings had indicated, a rocky bottom on which to rest the
foundation of some of the piers of the bridge. Nevertheless…
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.
…The total cost of the Oroton Aqueduct enterprise (reckoning every
item of expense) was nearly 812,500,000. High Bridge, as it is at
present, was not completed until 1848. The quantity of water at
first transmitted through the aqueduct…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…After the water is introduced, by these temporary means, there will be no pressing
necessity for the high bridge being erected faster than is convenient for the resources of
the Corporation, and the economy of its construction, provided no objection…
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…
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 " over the Croton, at the old head of the navigation,
was a wooden, rickety structure, destined soon to fall in disuse and
absolute decay, because of a substantial new bridge, then being
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constructed across…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…high bridge, 443,432 00
$8,907,465 00
Nine millions therefore, may be assumed as the cost of the aqueduct, over and above
the loss of interest on the capital, until the work be finished and productive.
CROTON AQUEDUCT…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The whole distance in Westchester County, all of which is nearly completed, is 32
miles and two-thirds of aqueduct, the arch bridge of 88 feet span at Sing Sing, 12 tunnels (or under ground excavations for the aqueduct,) whose…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The balance unexpended
will suffice to complete the high bridge over the Harlem, and henceforth the interest on the debt is to be
paid from
taxes.
222 MEMOIR OF THE CROTON AdUEDUCT.
delphia, Richmond, and Cincinnati, a large annual expenditure…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…After the water is introduced, by these temporary means, there will be no pressing
necessity for the high bridge being erected faster than is convenient for the resources of
the Corporation, and the economy of its construction, provided no objection…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…A pleasant road up to the high bridge of the Croton at
the old head of navigation -- a rickety structure, which seemed ready
to tumble into the stream more than a dozen years ago. During the
Revolutionary war there was…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Jeffrey Cooley Elevation of A High Bridge for Crossing Hariaem [sic] River, c. 1839-40 watercolor and Ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY. Photo: G.R. Farley The Old Croton aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…adaptation to the High Bridge, the complete removal of the receiving reservoir in Bryant Park, the paving of walkways atop the aqueduct berm, and current plans to add eight-foot-high fencing to the High Bridge. Standard treatment guidelines have…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…that part of it that commented on
the Report made by the Board of Assistants in favor of a high bridge, and on the resolution given in a preceding page, which that Board, in conformity with the Report, passed
seems…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
But the Common Council did not approve of the substitution of inverted syphons for a high bridge, to pass the water over the Harlem, and accordingly the Board of Assistants adopted this resolution :
RESOLVED, That it is inexpedient to adopt…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…These waters are all joined in one Aqueduct, crossing the river Faenza, upon a bridge of three arches, built in 1753. Again, in the valley of Durazzano, there is another bridge of three arches, upon which the Aqueduct crosses
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…210 MEMOIR OF THE"
The whole length of the bridge is 1450 feet the height of the river piers above high
;
water line is 60 feet to the spring of the arches, and 95 feet above the lowest foundation
that…