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rapidly after the American Revolutionary War , and freshwater sources became polluted by effluent . Before the aqueduct was constructed, residents of New York obtained water from cisterns , wells, natural springs, and other bodies of water. Rapid
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was definitely there in 1884. The Van Cortlandt Manor Bridge , which spanned the mouth of the river and went up the road where Shoprite is today, had several incarnations and was there when this map was made. “Long Bridge” was…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The following table
shows the length of the Aqueduct as it is divided into different planes of descent, from the gate chamber at the Croton
dam to the gate chamber at the Receiving Reservoir on the
Island of New- York…
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…Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Gift of John…
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…Quaker Bridge was definitely there in 1884 and would have been dwarfed by the dam behind it, that the New York Sun in 1888 called “The Biggest
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…Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York. Jervis, John B. MSB. Jen/is Public Library, Rome, New York. King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843. Lart^in…
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…Croton Lake, wood engraving in "From Croton to Town," Harpcr'i Magazine, July 6. 1872 Courtesy Dobbs Ferry Historical Society (not in exhibition) Photo: J. Kennedy this land by 1837, received $4,000 from the Water Commissioners for the Aqueduct…
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Library on New York Heritage Digital Collections Account of the New York Guard protection of the aqueduct in World War I Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation HAER No. NY-120, "
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…This expansion culminated in the construction of the New Croton Aqueduct in 1891, which involved not only the usual condemnations but de- struction of the original village of Katonah (figure 43). In sum, the old Croton Aqueduct had initiated a…
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Receiving Reservoir continued to supply New York City with drinking water until 1940, when Commissioner of Parks and Recreation Robert Moses ordered it drained and filled to create the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond in Central Park . The old aqueduct
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article about three-dimensional maps of New York City, the website Codex 99 calls this map “the first true attempt at a perspective map of the city . . . [The] four-sheet engraving, published by Galt & Hoy, attempted to label all roads…
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Bridge and the High Bridge Water Tower The Receiving Reservoir in Central Park The Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, now the site of the New York Public Library High Bridge and the High Bridge Water Tower. Click…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Common Council lost no time in passing an ordinance authorising the Comptroller to issue stock for this new loan, and on 21st May they constituted, by resolution, a
Committee on the Croton Aqueduct, to be composed of a joint…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…vicinity of the Croton Dam will be one of the resorts in
summer seasons for the citizens of New- York. From the
Croton Dam the Aqueduct passes along the left side of the
valley of the Croton River until at…
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…The City of New York. Will L. Taylor, chief draughtsman. New York, Galt & Hoy, 1879. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click to enlarge. Taylor’s 1879 New York City Map In a fascinating
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir is 40.562
miles to wit :
Masonry conduit in Westchester county 32.880'
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Do. do. on New York Island 4.187
Total length 37.067
Receiving reservoir from…
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The Aqueduct was built in response to the fires and epidemics that repeatedly devastated New York City, owing in part to its inadequate water supply and contaminated wells. Major David B. Douglass, the project’s first chief engineer, planned the
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Twenty-two miles are a designated part of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail, and sections are being incorporated into Westchester County’s RiverWalk. While the state park designation ends at the New York City line, the Aqueduct continues for
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…the Aqueduct received
the water from the Fountain Reservoir on the Croton :
--on
the 27th of June, the water having been permitted to traverse
the entire length of the Aqueduct, entered the Receiving
Reservoir at the city of New-York…
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active days of the Aqueduct, overseers in charge of patrolling and maintaining specific sections of this infrastructure vital to New York City were provided with houses on or near the section of the tunnel for which they were responsible. (See…
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…There its green corridor, managed by New York Parks & Recreation, follows a southward route through Van Cortlandt Park, past the east edge of Jerome Park Reservoir and along Aqueduct and University avenues to the
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…When additional water was needed for New York, a sec- ond Croton Dam was built, which flooded Jervis' original. Although intact underwater, it no longer functions as designed. Ventilators and tunnels Since the Aqueduct was to be completely enclosed to…
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…Characters were also added to the final versions of Aqueduct Bridge for Roadway, also engraved by Bennett, and Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook, engraved by John William Hill. "I gain information and pleasure by talking with the artists who…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The foreigner who visits this country will find the Croton
Aqueduct an interesting specimen of our public works, and
will be pleased with a pedestrian tour along the line of work
to the Fountain Reservoir among the hills of the…
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Croton Dam and Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, NY In the mid- to late 1800s first the Croton Dam , then the New Croton Dam , and the Croton Aqueduct were built on the Croton River to supply New York City…
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…IMAGINING THE AQUEDUCT J. F. Atwili, publisher, New York, Croton Water Celebration (City Hall Park), 1842. In pencil: "Aster House — Park Theatre/Croton Water Celebration, 1842" Lithographed music title for "The Croton Ode"; SVtx 12V'' inches The J. Clarence Davies…
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…Old Croton Aqueduct, OMB number 1024-0018 (This designation includes the submerged portion of the Aqueduct between the Old and New Croton Dams, as well as the Bronx portion of the Aqueduct running from Westchester to the Manhattan end of…