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Croton Aqueduct Bridge (High Bridge) — King's Handbook (1893)
The High Bridge across the Harlem River from King's Handbook of New York City (1893). Shows the bridge in its original stone-arch form — a Roman-style aqueduct bridge that…
NYPL, Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views
High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct — Stereoscopic View (1864)
Stereoscopic photograph of the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River, from the Robert N. Dennis collection. Stereoscopic views were the 3D photography of the Victorian era — viewed through a…
crotonhistory.org
Bridge and the High Bridge Water Tower The Receiving Reservoir in Central Park The Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, now the site of the New York Public Library High Bridge and the High Bridge Water Tower. Click…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) HIGH BRIDGE GATEHOUSE (WEST) 1837-1848 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct HIGH BRIDGE STORE Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct The western gatehouse at High…
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croton_waterworks_raw §50
— …Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) HIGH BRIDGE GATEHOUSE (WEST) 1837-1848 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct HIGH BRIDGE STORE Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct The western gatehouse at High…
croton_waterworks_raw §6
— Harlem River more navigable for larger ships 1929 1930 Hoover Dam construction begins 1933 Golden Gate Bridge construction begins 1931 1936 1939-45 World War II High Bridge designated a NYC Landmark 1970 High Bridge Aqueduct & Tower placed on National…
croton_waterworks_raw §51
— BRIDGE ENGINEER’S Office c 1840s (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) 17 HIGH BRIDGE TOWER 1872 Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Type Rising 185 feet on a bluff in…
croton_waterworks_raw §5
— …ships 1929 1930 Hoover Dam construction begins 1933 Golden Gate Bridge construction begins 1931 1936 1939-45 World War II High Bridge designated a NYC Landmark 1970 High Bridge Aqueduct & Tower placed on National Register of Historic Places 1972 1972…
croton_waterworks_raw §39
— …Aqueduct trail and attractions along the way. An ongoing project is the restoration and adaptive reuse of the keeper’s house in Dobbs Ferry into a visitors center, and the Friends also play an active role in the High Bridge…
croton_waterworks_raw §48
— …Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting the High Service Works located at the end of High Bridge, the dock and incline were built…
croton_waterworks_raw §3
— …In addition to the High Bridge, other key structures along the aqueduct that took shape during these years included the Croton Dam (an initial version of which ruptured in 1841, unleashing a lethal flood), the Sing Sing Kill Bridge, the…
croton_waterworks_raw §49
— Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park embraced the Old Croton Aqueduct in design. Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting the High Service…
Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons
High Bridge and High Service Works — Lithograph (1841)
Early lithograph (1841) showing the planned High Bridge, the high service works, and the reservoir for the Croton Aqueduct system at the Harlem River crossing. This was drawn before the bridge was…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
The High Bridge at Harlem — Harper's Magazine (1860)
Engraving of the iconic High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. The oldest standing bridge in New York City, opened 1848, with Roman-style stone arches. From Harper…
crotonhistory.org
…Selchow & Co., circa 1867-1880 High Bridge is one of the greatest feats of early American engineering and New York City’s oldest standing bridge. A key part of what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct, the
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…The grade line of the aqueduct supplying water to Marseilles was 270 feet above the valley floor and of comparable length to High Bridge. The Croton High Bridge is without peer in antebellum America and is the centerpiece of the…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw §18
— …The grade line of the aqueduct supplying water to Marseilles was 270 feet above the valley floor and of comparable length to High Bridge. The Croton High Bridge is without peer in antebellum America and is the centerpiece of the…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §37
— …With the completion of High Bridge in 1848, artists and the public alike got an extraordinary arcadian view of the Aqueduct. As early as 1843, Tower had noted that High Bridge "... will be the most interest- ing work on the…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §38
— …This exposure and the painting's subsequent issuance as an etching probably made High Bridge from Harlem Lane the best known Aqueduct painting of this later period. Artists, writers, and the general public also associated the Croton water system with…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §47
— …Alien: "The object is, I believe, to make the men feel the want of work ..." Jervis Pubiic Library, Rome, NY High Bridge During Construction of the Large Main, Viewed from the West Gate House, fooking East, 1861 [2 versions]; High…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §44
— …Gimber Reproduction, courtesy of The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns Checklist Evelyn Fitzgerald, Detail, Croton Aqueduct Ventilator Inscription Reproduction from contemporary slide Collection, Dobbs Ferty Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, NY Possibly by John B. Jervis, Aqueduct Bridge at Sing Sing…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §45
— …Viewed from the Westchester Side of the Harlem River, 1861; Sing Sing Bridge, Croton Aqueduct, Showing the Road Bridge Underneath It, 1863 From Photographic Views of the High Bridge and the Gate Houses of the New Reservoir (belonged to third…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §36
— …Bennett's watercolor Fishermen at High Bridge (1844, The New York Public Library) and John William Hill's watercolor of High Bridge (figure 48), exhibited at the American Art-Union in 1848,^'' reveal their continued interest in the Aqueduct as…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §19
— …By constructing a temporary low-level bridge, it was possible to lay Iron pipes across the Harlem River Valley allowing the Aqueduct to be opened before the completion of the High Bridge. On July 4, 1842, the first water was…
crotonhistory.org
…Indeed, in 1836 the New York Legislature reported that “the bridge over the Croton river upon [the Highland Turnpike] has been entirely carried away.” High Bridge , the covered bridge that
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New Croton Aqueduct Map 1884 §6
— …Indeed, in 1836 the New York Legislature reported that “the bridge over the Croton river upon [the Highland Turnpike] has been entirely carried away.” High Bridge , the covered bridge that
New Croton Aqueduct Map 1884 §7
— was built high above the river, is another ghost bridge on this map. It collapsed in 1879. (Details here ). Quaker Bridge was definitely there in 1884 and would have been dwarfed by the dam behind it, that the New York…
crotonhistory.org
Bridge, the one that carried the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. Opened in June, 1842, our High Bridge lasted just 37 years—collapsing into the river from neglect in October, 1879. 1 Why was the watch a prized “family…
NYPL / Detroit Publishing Company
High Bridge from the East — Postcard (1898)
Postcard view of the High Bridge from the east, showing the Croton Aqueduct bridge spanning the Harlem River. By 1898, the High Bridge had been carrying water for 50 years and was one…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Between the Farmers' Bridge and the High Bridge
commissioners are about erecting a new bridge, spanning the stream and extending from Aqueduct Avenue
on the Westchester shore to the Tenth Avenue on the
Manhattan Island aide. This bridge is to…
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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4322
— …Between the Farmers' Bridge and the High Bridge
commissioners are about erecting a new bridge, spanning the stream and extending from Aqueduct Avenue
on the Westchester shore to the Tenth Avenue on the
Manhattan Island aide. This bridge is to…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4323
— The aqueduct has tifteen
arches, eight of which are on the river bottom. They
are each eighty feet in width and one hundred feet
high above flood tide. The seven shore arches have
each fifty feet span. To reach the…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4321
— …Between the Farmers' Bridge and the High Bridge
commissioners are about erecting a new bridge, spanning the stream and extending from Aqueduct Avenue
on the Westchester shore to the Tenth Avenue on the
Manhattan Island aide. This bridge is to…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4333
— …city by
the High Bridge and not over a low bridge without a
draw, as was first contemplated. On the 3d of May,
1839, the Legislature passed an act directing the
water commissioners to construct an aqueduct across
the river…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4360
— Just south of the Wheeler and Ogden properties
the stone aqueduct known as High Bridge crosses the
Harlem.
South of High Bridge, not far from the junction of
Ogden Avenue and Woolfe Street, is a small stream
which was ihe…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4495
— …passed May 3, 1839, prescribed that the
Aqueduct Bridge should be constructed with arches
and piers of at least eighty feet span and a hundred
feet in height ; and the magnificent High Bridge is a
lasting monument to their perseverance…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4359
— …Just south of the Wheeler and Ogden properties
the stone aqueduct known as High Bridge crosses the
Harlem.
South of High Bridge, not far from the junction of
Ogden Avenue and Woolfe Street, is a small stream
which was ihe…
History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I §4493
— …One of the most important events in his life was
his connection with the improvement of Harlem River
and building of the High Bridge. At the time of
constructing the Crotou Aqueduct, the commissioners
had determined to carry the water…
en.wikipedia.org
Edenwald Houses Fonthill Castle and the Administration Building of the College of Mount St. Vincent Hertlein and Schlatter Silk Trimmings Factory High Bridge High Pumping Station Kingsbridge Armory Morrisania Post Office Park Plaza Apartments Port
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Old Croton Aqueduct §195
— Edenwald Houses Fonthill Castle and the Administration Building of the College of Mount St. Vincent Hertlein and Schlatter Silk Trimmings Factory High Bridge High Pumping Station Kingsbridge Armory Morrisania Post Office Park Plaza Apartments Port
Old Croton Aqueduct §3
— National Historic Landmark New York State Register of Historic Places The Croton Aqueduct at High Bridge in 1859 Location of Croton Aqueduct Nearest city New York City , New York Built 1837–1842 Architect John B. Jervis ; David Douglass; James
Old Croton Aqueduct §182
— Hall Ed Sullivan Theater Hudson Theatre New Amsterdam Theatre New York City Center The Public Theater Radio City Music Hall Samuel J. Friedman Theatre The Town Hall Village East by Angelika Transportation Bridges and tunnels Brooklyn Bridge High
Old Croton Aqueduct §20
— over the High Bridge at 173rd Street and down the West Side of Manhattan and finally into a Receiving Reservoir located between 79th and 86th streets and Sixth and Seventh Avenues; the site is now the Great Lawn and Turtle…
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Celebrating High Bridge
Celebrating High Bridge
High Bridge stands as one of America's most significant early engineering achievements and New York City's oldest existing bridge. Originally designed as a component of the Old Croton Aqueduct system, this structure…
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Celebrating High Bridge
Celebrating High Bridge
High Bridge stands as one of America's most significant early engineering achievements and New York City's oldest existing bridge. Originally designed as a component of the Old Croton Aqueduct system, this structure…
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Celebrating High Bridge
Celebrating High Bridge
High Bridge stands as one of America's most significant early engineering achievements and New York City's oldest existing bridge. Originally designed as a component of the Old Croton Aqueduct system, this structure…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…is involved, that the high bridge has the preference and if your
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honorable body should be of opinion, notwithstanding the great additional expense, that
the aqueduct should cross the Harlem River on a high bridge, and will fortify that opinion…
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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §415
— …is involved, that the high bridge has the preference and if your
;
honorable body should be of opinion, notwithstanding the great additional expense, that
the aqueduct should cross the Harlem River on a high bridge, and will fortify that opinion…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §414
— …in operation, and conduct a sufficient supply of water
through the aqueduct to the reservoir for all ordinary purposes.
6th. The time necessary to complete the high bridge, would be considerably more
than what would be required for constructing the…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §411
— …THE HIGH BRIDGE, maintaining its established inclination over the river, $935,745
2nd. IRON PIPES, supported by a low bridge, -
426,027
Excess of expense for the high bridge, - -
$509,718
In addition to the report of the chief engineer…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §412
— …crossing by a high bridge and
inclined plane. The reasons which have governed the Commissioners in this decision, are as follows :
1st. The difference in the cost of carrying an aqueduct over the river, on a bridge
of 163 feet…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §426
— …RESOLVED, That it is inexpedient to adopt the plan proposed by the Water Commissioners, for crossing the Harlem river by means of a low bridge or syphon, and that the
plan of the high bridge referred to in the Report…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §493
— …aqueduct.
The Harlem River Bridge. After leaving the sections of the fourth division in Westchester County, we arrive at
section 86, which includes the crossing of the Harlem River, and here we have been
engaged with the high bridge. We…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §413
— …The water in the large aqueduct of masonry would, with much more uncertainty, be protected from frost on the high bridge, from the greatly elevated exposure and
difficulty in surrounding it with a sufficient quantity of earth, than when constructed…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §582
— …To make the capacity of the pipes for conveying water equal to that of the aqueduct,
an extra fall of two feet has been given across the bridge, and the aqueduct on the
southern side of the river is constructed…
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0)
High Bridge, New York — Henry Ward Ranger (1905)
Oil on canvas by Henry Ward Ranger (1858-1916) depicting the High Bridge carrying the Croton Aqueduct over the Harlem River. The oldest standing bridge in New York City, High Bridge was…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
Croton Aqueduct Harlem River Crossing
The image depicts the Croton Aqueduct crossing the Harlem River, showcasing the original High Bridge design with stone arches. The scene includes a river with sailboats and steamboats, a grassy bank with trees, and people…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…considerations of economy induced them to build the work
only high enough to comply with the requirements of the
law. The plan which has been adopted for building an Aqueduct
bridge across this valley is as follows : on the south…
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Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §143
— …considerations of economy induced them to build the work
only high enough to comply with the requirements of the
law. The plan which has been adopted for building an Aqueduct
bridge across this valley is as follows : on the south…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §3
— …Aqueduct Bridge for Road-way,
Croton Aqueduct at Mill-River, ... -
Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook,
Croton Aqueduct at Hastings,
Croton Aqueduct at Yonkers,
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Croton Aqueduct at Harlem River, - - - - - 110
View of the Jet at Harlem River, - - - - - 112
Croton Aqueduct…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §9
— …The
bridge supporting this Aqueduct is remarkable for the slender form of the piers and their great height; being only
ten and a half feet thick and two hundred and fifty feet
high to the base of the arches. This…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §37
— …The middle
arches which are over the river de la Morgia, are about 328
feet high.
On the top of this bridge is the Aqueduct which carries
the water to Spoleto.
This structure was difficult to execute, and being built…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §132
— …These bridges and the adjacent work form
a very interesting point on the line of Aqueduct. Plate XII. is a view of the Aqueduct at this place : at the
left of the picture may be seen the bridge over the…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §144
— considerations of economy induced them to build the work
only high enough to comply with the requirements of the
law. The plan which has been adopted for building an Aqueduct
bridge across this valley is as follows : on the south…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §29
— …From remains of this
Aqueduct which are now found at various points along its
course, it appears to have required many expensive structures for crossing valleys ; in one instance the Aqueduct
bridge was 3,600 feet long, and the greatest…
Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct §22
— …the bridge was about 40 feet high and
the perpendicular height of the Aqueduct above it was 140
feet. Nine leaden pipes of about 8 inches interior diameter
and one inch thick were laid upon the inclined planes and
across…
aqueduct.org
famed High Bridge, which carried water in iron pipes cross the Harlem River to Manhattan to serve a growing population. A fuller history of the Aqueduct can be found a the Ossining Heritage Area and Keeper’s House visitor centers…
crotonhistory.org
…Related Tagged Ephemera High Bridge (Harlem River)
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles §5
— …Related Tagged Ephemera High Bridge (Harlem River)
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles §0
— …November 1877 ad These two nineteenth century puzzles, showing the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, were part of a set called Sliced Objects, published by E. G. Selchow & Co., circa 1867 to 1880. The puzzles came
Library of Congress
…Jervis showing workers tunnelling through earth during the construction of the Croton Aqueduct. Jervis designed the entire 41-mile system, including the dam, aqueduct, and High Bridge.
Date: 1837
Type: illustration
Subjects: tunnel, workers, construction, aqueduct
Source: Library of Congress…
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
NYPL, I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection
…river, bridge, aqueduct, trees, rocks, person
Source: NYPL, I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection
License: Public domain
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
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Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
This piece explores two nineteenth-century jigsaw puzzles featuring the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, part of a collection called "Sliced Objects" published by E. G. Selchow & Co. between approximately 1867 and 1880…
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 " High Bridge," or aqueduct over which the waters of the Croton
How from the main land to Manhattan Island, crosses the Island at One
Hundred and Seventy-Third Street. It is built of granite. The aqueduct
is fourteen hundred…
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The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §483
— …The " High Bridge," or aqueduct over which the waters of the Croton
How from the main land to Manhattan Island, crosses the Island at One
Hundred and Seventy-Third Street. It is built of granite. The aqueduct
is fourteen hundred…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §482
— …The " High Bridge," or aqueduct over which the waters of the Croton
How from the main land to Manhattan Island, crosses the Island at One
Hundred and Seventy-Third Street. It is built of granite. The aqueduct
is fourteen hundred…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §406
— …The "High Bridge " over the Croton, at the old head of the navigation,
was a wooden, rickety structure, destined soon to fall in disuse and
absolute decay, because of a substantial new bridge, then being
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constructed across…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §404
— When near the "High Bridge," at
the old head of boat navigation, I obtained a most interesting view of the
Mouth of the Croton, including Dover Kill Island near, the railwaybridge in the distance, and the high hills on the…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §7
— …Slaughterer's Landing
The Terrace Bridge and Mall
RockhuKl Lake
A Squatter Village
Mouth of the Croton
Provoost's Tomb -Jones's Woods
Croton Dam
View near Hell-Gate
Ventilators
The Beekman Mansion
High Bridge over the Croton
Turtle Bay…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §6
— …Slaughterer's Landing
The Terrace Bridge and Mall
RockhuKl Lake
A Squatter Village
Mouth of the Croton
Provoost's Tomb -Jones's Woods
Croton Dam
View near Hell-Gate
Ventilators
The Beekman Mansion
High Bridge over the Croton
Turtle Bay…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §510
— …In the centre, upon the highest visible point, is the Convent of the Sacred
Heart ; and towards the right is the Croton Aqueduct, or High Bridge,
over the Harlem river. The trees on the extreme right mark the line of…
The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea §531
— …After crossing
the Harlem River over the high bridge already described, it passes the
Manhattan valley by an inverted siphon of iron pipes, 4, 180 feet in length,
and the Clendening valley on an aqueduct 1,900 feet. It then…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…An Aqueduct Bridge built of stone, having arches resting upon piers and abutments, was proposed so as to continue the Aqueduct across with its regular inclination. An Inverted Syphon of iron pipes was proposed ; the pipes to descend to a…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw §38
— …An Aqueduct Bridge built of stone, having arches resting upon piers and abutments, was proposed so as to continue the Aqueduct across with its regular inclination. An Inverted Syphon of iron pipes was proposed ; the pipes to descend to a…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §39
— …This would not carry the work up to the level of the Aqueduct, and would render it necessary to connect the Aqueduct on each side of the valley by iron pipes which would descend to the level of the bridge…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §40
— …of economy induced them to build the work only high enough to comply with the requirements of the law. The plan which has been adopted for building an Aqueduct bridge across this valley is as follows : on the south shore…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §9
— …The middle arches which are over the river de la Morgia, are about 328 feet high. On the top of this bridge is the Aqueduct which carries the water to Spoleto. This structure was difficult to execute, and being built…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §10
— …Part of this ancient construction, consisting of two arches substantially built, still exists, near the modern Aqueduct. The Aqueduct bridge over the valley of Arcueil has twenty- five arches, is 72 feet high and 1,200 feet in length. In…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §37
— …is the Aqueduct bridge over the road from Tarrytown to Sing-Sing ; before it reaches this place it passes through three tunnels, over high foundation walls, and encounters deep excavations. Plate XIV. is a view of this bridge : it is…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §5
— …the bridge was about 40 feet high and the perpendicular height of the Aqueduct above it was 140 feet. Nine leaden pipes of about 8 inches interior diameter and one inch thick were laid upon the inclined planes and across…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw §4
— …he en- closed the town with new walls, built baths, and probably the Aqueduct of the bridge of Gard ("pont du Gard") for bring- ing water to them. This Aqueduct is nearly thirty miles in length, forming, in its course…
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.
…a high bridge; so that the abandonment of the adopted
project would mean an added expense to the city of more than half
a million dollars. Moreover, the original calculations of the total
probable cost of the aqueduct from the…
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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1135
— …a high bridge; so that the abandonment of the adopted
project would mean an added expense to the city of more than half
a million dollars. Moreover, the original calculations of the total
probable cost of the aqueduct from the…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1137
— " hydraulic stone masonry, connected with an earthen embankment,"
the embankment being two hundred and fifty feet long, sixty-five
feet high at its extreme height, two hundred and fifty feet wide at
the base, and fifty-five feet wide at…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1136
— In such circumstances it is highly
improbable that any change in the plan for the aqueduct bridge
would have been made if the people of Westchester had not compelled itby their aggressive acts. ( >n the 3d of May, 1839, the…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1138
— …The total cost of the Oroton Aqueduct enterprise (reckoning every
item of expense) was nearly 812,500,000. High Bridge, as it is at
present, was not completed until 1848. The quantity of water at
first transmitted through the aqueduct…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1172
— The present
New York and Putnam Railroad at its inception (1871) was designed
to run from High Bridge to Brewsters, and there connect with the
so-called New York and Boston. This road was not finished until
1881. It was…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §20
— …It is the old aqueduct
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which crosses the Harlem River over High Bridge; the new is carried
underneath the stream.
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South of the Croton River the next Hudson tributary of interest is
the Sing Sing…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1117
— The grade was required to correspond
with the regulation of the streets, which had
required much
deep cutting and some high
embankment. About
four miles of the road
are now in use. upon which pleasure cars are
constantly
run. for…