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at the Wayback Machine . Yorktown Historical Society. Retrieved on July 11, 2007. ^ Tompkins, Christopher R: The Croton Dams and Aqueduct , page 2. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7385-0455-6 . ^ "History and Geology of the NYC Aqueduct System"
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
The second change
came fifty years later, in the period between 1892 and 1905, as a
result of the building of the great new Croton Dam to conserve all of
the waters of the chain of Croton River lakes. Although…
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needed to excavate down to bedrock and construct what was then the tallest dam in the world and the largest hand-hewn masonry structure since the pyramids. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a…
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of the dam under construction, there’s a real dearth of images of the workers, their living quarters, and day-to-day life. Many thanks to Norm and OHSM for letting us share these striking images. To learn more about…
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Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, and Carl Oechsner, Croton Friends of History, for their help in analyzing these photographs. ↩︎ The text labels in the photos were added to the negatives in the darkroom so they would appear on every…
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.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
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.
…The new Croton dam is located about thirty - seven miles from the Central Park reservoirs , it is on the Cro- ton River , about two and one - half miles below the old Croton dam . Its purpose is to enlarge Croton Lake…
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distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and…
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…near New Croton Dam (these are largely submerged or modified due to the construction of the dam) #4-#8 : Croton-on-Hudson to Ossining (some of them in wooded sections of the trail) #9 : Ossining (Spring & Everett St.;
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snows, swept away the dam, and carried with it, riverward, a quantity of earth and gravel, sufficient to half fill the beautiful Croton Bay. The dam was immediately rebuilt, at greater altitude, and a lake was produced, almost six miles…
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Other Harmon In Search of Teatown Who We Are / How to Join / Contact Us / Croton Friends of History Croton Friends of History is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of Croton-on-Hudson and the Hudson Valley. Support our…
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…ISBN 0-471-14385-5 ^ a b "New Croton" Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine . New York City Department of
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…Croton Dam near Pine’s Bridge (now submerged) At the head of the aqueduct a dam was constructed, for the purpose of forming a fountain reservoir. At the beginning of 1841 a flood, produced by a protracted rain-storm and…
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…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign AMAWALK AUXILLARY DAM 1897 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) Earthen with a length of 400 feet and height of 25 feet, the Amawalk Auxiliary Dam is sited on the west side of…
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Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Croton Lake Station New York Central Railroad Published July 13, 2015 July
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Glimpse on the Croton Lake — Harper's Magazine (1860)
Engraving showing the Croton reservoir lake behind the Old Croton Dam. From T. Addison Richards' article 'The Croton Aqueduct' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1860. The dam created a…
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Environmental Protection. Retrieved on July 10, 2007. ^ "NYC Water Supply Watersheds: History" Archived 2007-10-20 at the Wayback Machine . New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Retrieved on July 11, 2007. ^ "Lowell Notes" (PDF) .
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completed in 1906 Historic American Engineering Record in New York (state) Masonry dams 1906 establishments in New York (state) Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Webarchive template wayback links Use American English from July 2025
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part of the Croton Dam gave way. The torrent of water and debris destroyed bridges and businesses, silted out the mouth of the Croton River and is said to have come within 8 feet of destroying Van Cortlandt Manor. 6…
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…One exception is an image taken at the Croton Lake Station of the “Old Put”—the New York Central Railroad, Putnam Division—shown below. 2 The company was located at 250
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map — Croton-on-Hudson (1911)
Sanborn map from 1911, five years after the completion of the New Croton Dam. Shows how the village had changed since the 1903 edition — new buildings, expanded infrastructure, and the impact of…
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…See here . ↩ Located along today’s Saw Mill River Road, Route 118. ↩ Croton Lake Station of the New York Central Railroad, Putnam Division. Courtesy of the
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Niagara Falls by Man's Own Hand
This photograph of the New Croton Dam was published in the "Rotogravure Picture Section" of the Sunday, December 14, 1919 issue of the New York Times. The accompanying caption read: "For the first…