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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the other side of the banner the Queen of Cities, represented by a female wearing a crown, is calling attention to a
picture, a view of the dam on the Croton
River
the origin of the aqueduct. On the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Jervis, that he suggested as a temporary expedient, the laying down pipes
along the coffer dam in the river, through which the Croton water might be conducted to
the New York shore. The Commissioners repeat this suggestion without expressing an…
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. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…In 1840, the swollen Croton River
broke away the dam connected with the aqueduct by which New York
city is supplied with water, and swept down into the bay, an enormous
quantity of earth, on which occasion the river, directly…
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…The High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, National Register of Historic Places (1972) 6. 135th Street Gatehouse, National Register of Historic Places (1983) 7. The Old Croton Dam Site, National Register of Historic Places (1973) Individual Site Partners Croton Friends…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…000 gallons of water a clay. He states that the Little Rye pond contained fifty acres, and the Big Rye pond, five hundred acres those ponds he proposed to convert into reservoirs, by building a dam six feet
;
high, which…
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…Bornet's 1850 lithograph Croton [Distributing] Reservoir (figure 49) focused on the more rural aspects of that part of Manhattan. The Dam, as well, symbolized the technological power of the Aqueduct. In confining the forces of nature, it likely invoked…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…It is
estimated that the capacity of the Croton River is sufficient to supply the
THE HUDSON.
city with a population of 5,000,000. The ridge line, or water-shed, enclosing the Croton valley above the dam, is 101…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…according to an estimate of Canvass White, might be constructed, of five feet
diameter, for $31,174 per mile, making the whole cost, from the point where the water
was taken from the Bronx to Macomb's dam, $400,000.
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Between the Croton Dam and the influent gate-house at Harlem River, the line of
aqueduct was finished last season, and during the present season this gate-house has been
nearly completed. The embankment in the Harlem River, which serves…
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.
…Moreover, the original calculations of the total
probable cost of the aqueduct from the Croton had by this time
been found to be ridiculously small, and it began to be realized that
the ultimate aggregate would approximate or exceed $10…
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…Philip Hone, who would be appointed a member of the 1848 Board of Water Commissioners, wrote in his diary: There has been a flare-up amongst the Irish laborers on the Croton Aqueduct occasioned by the contractors reducing their wages…
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…THE OLD CROTON aqueduct LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Blake, Nelson Manfred. Water for Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Cooper, Linda Gilbert, ed. A Walkers to the Old…
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.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
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.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
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.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
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.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
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.
…On April 16 , 1902 , the Aqueduct Commissioners resolved to remove the em- bankment and core wall and to continue the main stone dam to the gatehouse . The estimated cost to complete the embankment and core wall under the original plan…
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.
…became as we know it now,
Croton River, and the white man liked it so well that we soon had
Croton Lake, Croton Falls, Croton Landing, Croton Dam, Croton Aqueduct and even Croton Avenue in Ossining. The Indian name for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…and
8 feet in depth at low water, which would probably have been an ample provision for all
navigation that it is necessary to provide for, the plan of passing the aqueduct by means
of a tunnel, would have been…
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…Rejecting the Bronx River as yielding an inadequate supply, the Commissioners proposed tap- ping the Croton watershed. The estimated cost for a dam across the Croton River, the aqueduct, and reservoirs was $4,150,000, with an additional $1,262…
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.
…Macomb's Dam was then still in existence, blocking all passage beyond the present Central Bridge. The old plan to bring the Bronx
water into New York had been hampered by the fact that the Bronx
River did not have…
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the New Croton Dam), the author recounts in these pages his guided tour of the South Gatehouse, complete with illustrations of the structure’s now-closed interior. —“Local Intelligence: The New Reservoir,” The New York Times, 30 June 1862, http…
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…4.080 The Croton water was taken from the Croton dam, and when perfectly clear was found, as appears by the above analysis to contain 4.998, or about Jive 136 grains of solid matter to the gallon. The Schuylkill…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…by the Legislature, for the purpose of authorising the water Commissioners to take possession upon agreement or due appraisement, of lands or roads overflowed by the construction of the dam, and to make new roads and bridges in lieu of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…By
rebuilding and raising the dam, a head of 142 feet above tide would be obtained, and
no serious obstacles occur in the route before intersecting those laid out for the Croton. But upon guaging the streams of supply, it…
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…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…The waters of the Croton flow from the dam to the distributing reservoir, forty miles and a half, through a covered canal, made of stone and
brick, at an average depth of 2i feet. The usual flow is about 30…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…Passing under the
arch of the Croton aqueduct, the waters again appear rushing
over their stony bed until their further progress is checked by the
mill dam. Here a pipe of nine hundred feet in length conveys
the water lo…
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. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…In 1840, the swollen Croton River
broke away the dam connected with the aqueduct by which New York
city is supplied with water, and swept down into the bay, an enormous
quantity of earth, on which occasion the river, directly…