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community known as The Bowery. Below is another view of the Bowery, looking north toward the dam, which can be seen in the distance. The label on the card incorrectly refers to the “Quaker Bridge Dam”, which was one of…
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Bowery Bridge Below New Croton Dam §1
— community known as The Bowery. Below is another view of the Bowery, looking north toward the dam, which can be seen in the distance. The label on the card incorrectly refers to the “Quaker Bridge Dam”, which was one of…
Bowery Bridge Below New Croton Dam §0
— The wooden work bridge, built across the Croton River near today’s Route 129. The bridge was used to move men and supplies from the docks at Croton Landing up to the New Croton Dam worksite. The buildings along the…
Bowery Bridge Below New Croton Dam §2
— before the Cornell farm site was chosen. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new…
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enlarge it and then click the arrow icons to cycle through the images. View looking north Close-up of John Fish Detail showing the machine shops below the dam The machine shops below the dam (where the park is today…
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New Croton Dam Construction Circa 1902 §5
— enlarge it and then click the arrow icons to cycle through the images. View looking north Close-up of John Fish Detail showing the machine shops below the dam The machine shops below the dam (where the park is today…
New Croton Dam Construction Circa 1902 §8
— river below the dam Other visitors to the dam Detail showing the man higher up the stairs looking through a pair of binoculars Detail showing the railroad tracks through the tunnel, used to bring stone to the face of the…
New Croton Dam Construction Circa 1902 §10
— …Large chunks of stone on flat railcars, waiting to be transported through the tunnel to the face of the dam. This is probably the house of Aaron Cornell, along the original bank of the Croton River. The road below the…
New Croton Dam Construction Circa 1902 §7
— 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
New Croton Dam Construction Circa 1902 §3
— involved in the construction as a subcontractor but so far a search of online and offline sources has turned up nothing. If you have any information please send us an email . The scanned images below have been adjusted in Photoshop…
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…Click the image to enlarge it. New Croton Dam spillway, February, 1934. Click the image to enlarge it. Ice on the spillway of the New Croton Dam, February, 1934. Click the image to enlarge it. Croton River below the
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Supply—Present Condition of Work on the Great Croton River Dam.” Christopher Tompkins, author of The Croton Dams and Aqueduct , said this image is “especially noteworthy for its accuracy in depicting the excavation.” Below is the top section of the
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…At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world. [ 3 ] Its foundation extends 130 feet (40 m) below the bed of the river, and the dam contains
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online courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection. Bridge below the New Croton Dam, May 13, 1913. Courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection. A number of other photos were taken
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Drive To The New Croton Dam 1913 §3
— online courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection. Bridge below the New Croton Dam, May 13, 1913. Courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection. A number of other photos were taken
Drive To The New Croton Dam 1913 §4
— the same day but unfortunately most show the car on unidentifiable country roads. 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…
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…Below are details from the image, showing the immense scale of the structure—made entirely of hand-hewn stone which was cut, moved and placed without the aid of modern construction equipment. The image comes from the George P.
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that a new Croton Dam should be built. (It was to be located about three miles below the old dam on the Croton River. It would cover an area of land 20 miles long) 1892 construction began on the new…
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Croton Dam and Reservoir, 2013. The structure was officially declared completed, including the road across the top and the park with fountain below, and turned over to the City of New York on New Year’s Day 1907. The design…
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Water Over the Dam §42
— Croton Dam and Reservoir, 2013. The structure was officially declared completed, including the road across the top and the park with fountain below, and turned over to the City of New York on New Year’s Day 1907. The design…
Water Over the Dam §29
— Croton Gorge Park below. One of the unique features is the s-shaped curve spillway, designed to be used as a waste channel for water coming over the top of the dam. New Croton Dam spillway. The last stone of…
Water Over the Dam §28
— …below the bed of the Croton River, ground level to top of dam 166 feet, total height 297 feet, thickness of the base 206 feet, thickness at the top 18 feet, and width of the roadway 20 feet. New Croton…
Water Over the Dam §41
— …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 dam will be 33 feet below…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…injury to our works, the freshet has left remaining no bridge
" In addition to the above
over the Croton River on its whole length, either above or below the dam. " There were three
bridges below, one called Tompkins' Bridge, valued…
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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §511
— …injury to our works, the freshet has left remaining no bridge
" In addition to the above
over the Croton River on its whole length, either above or below the dam. " There were three
bridges below, one called Tompkins' Bridge, valued…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §576
— At 300 feet below the main dam, a second dam is in progress, which is to be 9 feet
high, constructed of timber, stone and gravel, which will set the water back over
the
of the main and form a…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §512
— " There were three
bridges below, one called Tompkins' Bridge, valued
at 1400 dollars, the bridge at the Wire Mill, cost 1200 dollars, and the Quaker Bridge over which
Tompkins Bridge was
the New York and Albany stages pass, valued at…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §522
— The length of the new
part of the dam (the mason work of the old dam not having been carried away) is 180 feet;
so that with the mason work of the first erected dam, which still remains, it will…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §559
— …of the country from the banks of the Croton to the city of
New York, is of one general character. The line cuts a small section of marble of inferior quality, about two miles below the Croton dam. In running…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §359
— …the shores of New Jersey, the salt water will be ejected, and the fresh will
take its place above the dam, yet we fear, that, in locking vessels up, more or less of the
salt water below the dam will…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §523
— …The construction of the new dam was vigorously commenced by Messrs. McCullough,
Black & Co., early in the spring, under contract, to raise the same so high by the 1st of
November following, as to throw at least two feet of…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §575
— …At 300 feet below the main dam, a second dam is in progress, which is to be 9 feet
high, constructed of timber, stone and gravel, which will set the water back over
the
of the main and form a…
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.
A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
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Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §4
— A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §23
— A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §45
— A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §12
— …A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §33
— …A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §55
— …A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §107
— …of the water in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These…
Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam §5
— The lower portion of the inner slope to a height of 16 feet below the crest of the spillway , to be paved with stone , 18 inches thick , laid dry , upon 12 inches of broken stone , and on the upper part…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
This dam was proposed to
be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby
keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would
be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be
pumped…
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Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §87
— This dam was proposed to
be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby
keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would
be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be
pumped…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §99
— At the place where it was determined to build the dam
across the Croton River, the surface of the natural flow of
water was about 38 feet below the elevation required as a
head for the water to flow into…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §86
— …This dam was proposed to
be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby
keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would
be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be
pumped…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §116
— …The following table
shows the length of the Aqueduct as it is divided into different planes of descent, from the gate chamber at the Croton
dam to the gate chamber at the Receiving Reservoir on the
Island of New- York…
Various (1971)
— original
…Since both of these sites lay below the proposed flood level of the river it was decided to excavate them before the completion of the dam. The Witchs Walk Sites, as they came to be called, are located on the…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Current Designation(s) Sign MUSCOOT DAM 1905 Plate 15-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) MILL RIVER WASTE WEIR 1837-1841 Plate 22-6, Old Croton Aqueduct Spanning a depression 72 feet below grade, the Mill River Culvert’s 172…
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croton_waterworks_raw §53
— …Current Designation(s) Sign MUSCOOT DAM 1905 Plate 15-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) MILL RIVER WASTE WEIR 1837-1841 Plate 22-6, Old Croton Aqueduct Spanning a depression 72 feet below grade, the Mill River Culvert’s 172…
croton_waterworks_raw §47
— …Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) AMAWALK GATEHOUSE 1889-1896 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Located south of the main dam, the gatehouse receives water from the tower and sends it to the fountain…
croton_waterworks_raw §49
— …11 COAL WHARF c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type A wharf on the Harlem River below Shaft Number 25 that received coal shipments to power the engines in the pump house and Shaft Number 25. Type Significance…
croton_waterworks_raw §52
— …Croton Aqueduct Residing 105 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct’s grade, Manhattan Valley, two miles south of High Bridge, was traversed by an inverted siphon of cast iron pipes. MIDDLE BRANCH DAM 1874-1878 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct…
croton_waterworks_raw §58
— …a bed 40 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct conduit. 42 Sign Current Designation(s) TITICUS DAM 1890-1895 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct The Titicus Dam stretches 1,519 feet. The masonry portion, including the spillway, is 732 feet…
croton_waterworks_raw §44
— …Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater after the construction of the New Croton Dam in 1905; Now located about thirty feet below the water's surface in the new dam. P Panic…
croton_waterworks_raw §1
— …The Great Fire of 1835 and the cholera epidemic of 1832 (a victim of whom is illustrated below) were two of the most catastrophic instances of these periodic phenomena; occurring on the eve of the construction of the Croton system…
croton_waterworks_raw §51
— …wing, Gatehouse Number 1 was constructed below grade with no superstructure. Here the New Croton Aqueduct divides with one branch leading to the reservoir and the other leading to Shaft Number 20 where the pressure tunnel begins. Type Significance(s…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
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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old_croton_aqueduct_raw §31
— 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…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §17
— …There was little evidence of erosion of the stonework or of the apron dunng all of the years that the Dam functioned. When additional water was needed for New York, a sec- ond Croton Dam was built, which flooded Jervis…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §10
— …new assignment in October 1836, within ten days of his taking the chief engineer's position. He began by examining the site of the proposed Croton Reservoir and the line of the water tunnel from the dam location to the…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §30
— …All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Bridge also — leaving no crossing over the Croton from its mouth to Golden's bridge ....■^^ The newspaper account provides…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §44
— …Tower, View above the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843 Engraved by William James Bennett; 5V2X 10 V2 Inches (Image) Ossining Historical Society Museum Fayette B. Tower, View below the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §33
— …French, History of Westchester County, iVcii' York (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co.. 1925). vol. I. 348 also see Renada Hoffman, "The Night the Dam Broke," Westchester /!isi<,r,.„i. vol. 44 (Fall 1968) #4, pp.87-89. 23. John…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §11
— …Farley figure 15, below: Robert Havell. Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §19
— …Jervis, "Memoir presented October 18, 1876,' Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, voi.6, p.55. 5. John B. Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842),
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 Dutch called it Croton in memory of an Indian
Sachem of that name, -whose habitation was on the northern border of the
bay, near the neck, a little below the mouth of the river. Its sources are
among the…
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The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §404
— …The Dutch called it Croton in memory of an Indian
Sachem of that name, -whose habitation was on the northern border of the
bay, near the neck, a little below the mouth of the river. Its sources are
among the…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §405
— …Not having
time to visit the fountain reservoir, I have availed myself of the pencil
services of a friend, in giving a sketch of the dam from a point just
below it.
The Croton aqueduct runs parallel with the Iludson…
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.
…As the Dutch burghers of New
York and Albany prospered and grew more powerful, the choice fowling and fishing attractions of the Croton River region lured the officials
and sportsmen of the seventeenth century. Came the Van Cortlandts ! The year…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…This dam was proposed to be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be pumped…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw §23
— …This dam was proposed to be built about 2 feet above the level of high tide, thereby keeping all the salt water below ; and above the dam would be the fresh water for supplying the city, which must be pumped…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §32
— …The following table shows the length of the Aqueduct as it is divided into differ- ent planes of descent, from the gate chamber at the Croton dam to the gate chamber at the Receiving Reservoir on the Island of New…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §36
— …that the vicinity of the Croton Dam will be one of the resorts in summer seasons for the citizens of New- York. From the Croton Dam the Aqueduct passes along the left side of the valley of the Croton River…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §0
— …90 Tunnel and Gate Chamber at the head of the Aqueduct, - - 92 View above the Croton Dam, ------ 95 Entablature over the entrance to the Aqueduct, - 96 View below the Croton Dam, ------ 98 Croton Aqueduct at Sing-Sing, - - - - - 101 Aqueduct Bridge…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §27
— …At the place where it was determined to build the dam across the Croton River, the surface of the natural flow of water was about 38 feet below the elevation required as a head for the water to flow into…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §42
— miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…
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.
…The dam across the Croton River was commenced in January, 1838,
and was completed about the end of 1840. This dam was formed of
1 All the original commissioners except I'.. new board. Mr. Brown
M. Brown served until the…
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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1136
— …The dam across the Croton River was commenced in January, 1838,
and was completed about the end of 1840. This dam was formed of
1 All the original commissioners except I'.. new board. Mr. Brown
M. Brown served until the…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1124
— …They marked out a route from Macomb's
Dam to the Bronx River, which they declared to be the proper one
for the long desired supply, and added: "The Croton cannot be
brought in by this route, and cannot ever…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1131
— …The line was divided into four divisions, the first extending from the Croton ten and one-half miles
to below Sing Sing, the second ten miles farther to Hastings, the
third ten miles to Fordham Church, and the fourth ten…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1130
— …On the 26th of April, 1837, bids were opened " for furnishing the materials and completing the construction of twenty-three
sections of the Croton Aqueduct, including the dam in the Croton,
the aqueduct bridge over Sing Sing Kill, and the…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1137
— …the
night of the 7th of January, 1841, in consequence of a sudden and
great rise in the water of the Groton, the portion of the dam comprised in the earthen embankment gave way, and the whole country
below was…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1125
— They marked out a route from Macomb's
Dam to the Bronx River, which they declared to be the proper one
for the long desired supply, and added: "The Croton cannot be
brought in by this route, and cannot ever…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1119
— …Weston, the engineer of the canal companies
of the State, was employed to thoroughly inquire into the matter. Dr. Brown's plan was to dam the Bronx about half a mile below
Williams's Bridge. Calculating, however, that the elevation…
comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt
…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…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
completed in 1890 and the New Croton Dam, designed to meet the ever-increasing demands for fresh water from New York City, was completed in 1907 after 15 years of construction. Construction of New Croton Dam, 1901 Source: History of…