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…Coverage of the completion of the New Croton Dam. The final stone, weighing 3,200 pounds, was ceremonially placed on January 10, 1906. The dam stood 297 feet high, 1,168 feet across, with a 1,000-foot spillway — the…
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[ 1 ] forming the New Croton Reservoir , both parts of the New York City water supply system . It stretches across the Croton River near Croton-on-Hudson, New York , about 22 miles (35 km) north of New York City. Construction began…
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Drive to the New Croton Dam, 1913
In 1913, the Overman Tire Company conducted a demonstration test using a National touring car equipped with their cushion tires. The test aimed to showcase "the ability of Overman cushion tires to withstand…
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Drive to the New Croton Dam, 1913
In 1913, the Overman Tire Company conducted a demonstration test using a National touring car equipped with their cushion tires. The test aimed to showcase "the ability of Overman cushion tires to withstand…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/07/13/drive-to-the-new-croton-dam-1913/
Drive to the New Croton Dam, 1913
In 1913, the Overman Tire Company conducted a demonstration test using a National touring car equipped with their cushion tires. The test aimed to showcase "the ability of Overman cushion tires to withstand…
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Troop Encampment at New Croton Dam Site
This black-and-white photograph shows a large military-style encampment with numerous white tents arranged in a series of clusters on a hillside. The tents are conical in shape and appear to…
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…At three oclock, we set off to ride seven miles, to see the Dam at the Croton water works. Our ride was very pleasant
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Francis was brought in as a consultant for the construction. [ 6 ] The proposed dam and reservoir were to cover 20 square miles (52 km 2 ) of land occupied by public and private buildings, six cemeteries, and more than 400 farms…
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Driving to the Dam, 1912
Driving to the Dam, 1912
This historical post features a 1912 photograph showing "an automobile driving along the road which once ran across what is now the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail." The image captures an…
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…Troops were also dispersed to protect the Old Croton Dam and smaller feeder dams that made up the New Croton Reservoir. After three weeks’ negotiations, the strike ended and the men returned to work, having achieved little to improve their
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October 14, 1842 - Thousands to celebrate the Croton Dam and fresh water for NYC
October 14, 1842 - "Thousands to celebrate the Croton Dam and fresh water for NYC"
A first-person account from Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck's diary describes the…
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Friends of History Water Over the Dam Croton Friends of History Programs / Articles / Silver Lake, Croton's Hidden Gem A Dummy Forever! The Graven Images of Bethel Cemetery Postcard Tour The Other Harmon In Search of Teatown Who We Are…
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[ 1 ] began in 1892 and was completed in 1906. [ 2 ] Building the dam meant diverting the river from its normal path and pumping the riverbed dry. To accomplish this, workers dug a crescent-shaped canal 1,000 feet (300 m…
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850,000 cubic yards (650,000 m 3 ) of masonry. [ 8 ] The engineers' tablet mounted on the headhouse nearest the spillway lists the spillway length as 1,000 feet (300 m) and the total length of the dam and spillway…
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Diverting the Croton River
A photograph from Scientific American dated February 5, 1898, documents the initial phase of New Croton Dam construction—redirecting the Croton River's natural flow to create the excavation site for the dam's foundation.
The…
Hogue, O. Wendell, and Veronica Gilbert Agne. “A Brief Historical Sketch of Croton-on-Hudson.” In Croton on Hudson Golden Jubilee, 1898-1948, September Nineteenth to Twenty-Sixth. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Croton Golden Jubilee Committee, 1948. Seq 14 only — additional pages not yet extracted from HathiTrust htid nyp.33433062496793.
…Soon the railroad made Croton a commuting residential village . The Croton Dam The second great change affecting the village came a half century after the coming of the railroad . Between 1892 and 1905 , New York City built the famous Dam…
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Photograph Collection New-York Historical Society Published February 8, 2014
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…m 3 ) of water, a small fraction of the New York City water system's total storage capacity of 580 billion US gallons (2.2 × 10 9 m 3 ). [ 4 ] History [ edit ] The dam on the reservoir side Background [ edit ]
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began on the first Croton Aqueduct and dam. Many of the workers were Irish. 1842 the dam was completed. 1849 the railway was built as far as Peekskill; the Croton station was on River Street (later Riverside Avenue). A result…
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million US gallons (340,000 m 3 ) a day to the city via the Old Croton Aqueduct . [ 5 ] To meet escalating water needs, the Aqueduct Commission of the City of New York ordered construction of a new Croton system in…
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Diverting the Croton River
A photograph from Scientific American dated February 5, 1898, documents the initial phase of New Croton Dam construction—redirecting the Croton River's natural flow to create the excavation site for the dam's foundation.
The…
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suspension bridge Looking south at the construction area below the dam Detail showing stones stacked up next to the railroad tracks Detail showing another view of the machine shops Detail showing some construction buildings on the other side of the
DCMNY / New-York Historical Society, Stonebridge Collection
1900 Dam Strike Camp
A black-and-white photograph showing a large tent encampment for workers on a hillside, likely related to the New Croton Dam construction. The camp consists of numerous white tents arranged in rows, with people and…
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This is an often photographed view of the New Croton Dam, but this particular image from 1912 captured an automobile driving along the road which once ran across what is now the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. For an equally romantic…
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