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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.
Shaw, in his History of the Province of
" that heathen customs were much practised among the people, such as
Moray says,
pilgrimages to wells, and building chapels to fountains.At the present time, in some
parts of England, remains of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
fabrics, which have been the works of mighty princes, who have left their prodigious
monuments of ostentation to be admired by future ages, for indeed, we ought to consider
that these waters had their sources and beginning from vast high…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The third wheel went into operation on the 24th December, 1822, and is of the
same size as the second, and works under the same head and fall, making thirteen revolutions in a minute with a five feet stroke of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
ing for a patent for his discovery, and that when completed, they would make proposals
to the Board, for a contract for furnishing the city of New York with water. The Board adopted a resolution expressive of their desire to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It is proposed to make the tunnel, by first excavating the mud which forms the bed
of the river, by means of a dredging machine, so as to allow a frame for a coffer dam to
be sunk on the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The form on the lower face commences on a curve, described by a radius of 55 feet,
and continues to within about 10 feet of tho top, when a reversed curve, on a radius of 10 feet,
carries the face…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In this basin have been successively deposited the tertiary strata, in
the centre of which Paris is situated. On a circular space bounded by the towns of
Laon. Mantes, Blois, Sancerre, Nogent-sur-Seine, and Epernay, these strata appear at…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The actual consumption of water in Philadelphia, is stated
at 2,000,000 " when the streets are washed."
gallons in winter, and 3,000,000 in summer,
PRELIMINARY ESSAY. 79
The distribution of the water from Fairmount, is by two…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The number now partly finished is ten, and their
length in feet 652. The number partly finished at our last report was seven; length
578. Increase, 3 culverts in progress.
Tunnels. The number of tunnels excavated throughout is three. Their…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
FREDERICK GRAFF. To Messrs. CLARKSON CROLIUS,Jun.,1
E. D. WEST, *> Committee of Invitation. WILLIAM DODGE,
The fourteenth of October arrived, and a more beautiful day never broke upon the
earth. A brilliant sun…
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. II, No. 7. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
…passing
through the northern part of the present
Jerome reservoir, and it crossed the line
of the old Croton aqueduct atVanCortlandt
avenue, following the course of the latter
to Jerome avenue. These parts of the
path are now, of course…
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.
…Camp's entrance-gate, on the site now occupied by the embankment of the Croton Aqueduct, stood the residence of
Richard Morris, colonial judge of Vice Admiralty,
and afterwards second chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of…
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.
…who, when the decemvirs and sybils indicated the Anio as
the stream which the gods preferred for the supply of his aqueduct,
still adhered to the cold, pure, and abundant springs from the mountains of Tivoli, so Mr. Douglass, disregarding…
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. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…Immediately contiguous to the Dutch Reformed Church is theCroton
Aqueduct, which at no great distance crosses the Harlem River on a
magnificent bridge of stone 1450 feet long, with fifteen arches, eight of
■which are eighty feet span, and seven…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
WATER, as one of the elements alike of animal and vegetable life, has always been
an object of man's attention. In the early ages, indeed, it was reverenced as the substance of which all things were supposed to be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Girard was charged with the work. The water is taken from the Ourcq, at sixty miles
from Paris. In its course, the canal receives the tribute of the Grisette, the Mai, the
Therouanne, and the BeuvronneJ all which streams flow…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Cartwright, Esq., a civil engineer, residing at the village of Sing Sing, and who possesses much local knowledge of the
Croton and its vicinity, to run levels on both sides of said river, starting from Garretson's
mill, at aheight…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The iron pipes are proposed to be of metal, 1 3-8 inches in thickness, for the part
that passes the tunnel, and 1^ inches until they extend to a point 40 feet above the level
of the river. Branch…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It is laid level across the bottom,
three inches thick at the centre of the inverted arch, and curved on its upper surface, to
form a bed for the arch, which brings it 12 inches thick at the spring line…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Committee appointed to make arrangements for celebrating the introduction of
the Croton water into the city of New York on the 14th instant Respectfully
Report :
That, having taken into consideration the great importance of this stupendous monument of the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
There was the man of war and the man of peace
the soldier and the sailor the master and the apprentice the father and the son the
man of words and the man of deeds the mace and the axe…
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.
Just south of the Wheeler and Ogden properties
the stone aqueduct known as High Bridge crosses the
Harlem.
South of High Bridge, not far from the junction of
Ogden Avenue and Woolfe Street, is a small stream
which was ihe…
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.
…far as its particulars are
apropos to our narrative, down to the period of the completion of the
first aqueduct, reserving notice of the later works for the proper
chronological sequence. It is of interest that in July, 1774, a…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
in 1819, a contract wasmade with Capt. Ariel Cooly, for damming the Schuylkill. For
the sum of $150,000, he undertook to throw a dam of sufficient height across the river
to create the requisite head of water, to construct…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This may be tested by allowing it to stand
until it has acquired the ordinary summer temperature its various ingredients become
;
then manifest, palpable. These impurities are not caused by the additional heat they ;
exist at all times in the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Resolved, That Colonel De Witt Clinton be requested and authorised to proceed and
examine the continuation of the route from Chatterton Hill, near White plains, to Croton
River, or such other sources in that vicinity from which he may suppose…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The items of which the estimate for the bridge is made, are for the greatest part of a
character that give confidence in its being a fair approximation to the actual cost. The hydraulic foundations are the principal exception. In…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The openings are made by an exterior and interior wall, connected at every ten feet by
cross walls, which are carried up to within 17 feet of the top, and there connected by a
brick arch thrown from one to…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…Thereupon he recommended to the Aqueduct Commissioners that this entire section of the embank- ment and core wall to the gatehouse be removed and the stone dam extended in its place . But while maintaining that the conditions allowed of no…