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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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have been carried across the dam and bridge, from abutment to abutment, with fine architectural effect. Original bridge with spillway below. These, however, are minor defects and do not prevent the Croton Dam from ranking, not only as one of…
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Croton Fire Insurance Co. in New York City. These rare images are courtesy of George Glazer Gallery , which is offering this item for sale. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in…
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…A severe freshet * last winter carried away all the bridges, so we were obliged to drive through the Croton river,
Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
…The New Croton Reservoir dam is visible behind the bridge.
Date: 1935
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type: photograph
Subjects: bridge, reservoir, river, dam
Source: Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
License: Public domain (county government records)
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wide in the hill on the north side of the river, secured the canal with a masonry retaining wall, and built temporary dams to control the water flow. [ 2 ] The initial construction lasted eight years, and extensive modifications and repairs…
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Hall & Son Photograph Collection at the New-York Historical Society. According to NYHS, “the commercial photography firm . . . operated in Manhattan from 1886 through 1914. Working out of several studios, the firm documented the changing face of New
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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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…between reservoirs - 2.176
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It is proper to add to the above, the length of the Croton reservoir, which has been
formed by the erection of the Croton dam and other work necessary to obtain the water,
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This 1906 plan of the downstream elevation, prepared by the New York City Aqueduct Commission, comes from the Historic American Engineering Record collection of the Library of Congress. The collection includes a large number of photographs and plans
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the village of Croton. Riverside Avenue along the Croton-on-Hudson waterfront. The Italians were short-changed when it came to wages. “Intelligent labor” was paid 30 cents more per day than “common labor” but the common labor category was…
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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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Times reported: “Soon the once narrow Croton River will be a great lake, filling in the valley behind it for nearly 20 miles. When the waters have risen to the top of the new dam, the crest of the old…
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These aerial and ground photographs were taken by Jack Boucher in 1978 and are now part of the Historic American Engineering Record collection of the Library of Congress. The collection includes a large number of photographs and plans documenting the
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York City at the turn of the 20th century. Hall & Son’s photographs were available for general sale, were published in their own calendars and souvenir viewbooks, and appeared as illustrations in such publications as King’s Views of New…
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A first-person account of the Croton Water Celebration from the diary of Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck. “It was a happy day for New.York, as now she stands a “queen city” with her beautifull Fountains, and pure transparent water, her…
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…A beautifull day for the celebration of the Croton water Works. Every one was in commotion to.day, the whole city were on the move; and thousands of country people came
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This beautiful photograph (circa 1908) is from the Keystone-Mast Collection at the California Museum of Photography , University of California at Riverside. The museum maintains the world’s largest collection of original stereoscopic prints and