8 passages in 3 source items for “aqueduct land purchase”
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the aqueduct and culverts, and forming the necessary
excavations and embankments.
The urgency of these preliminary operations arose from the fact, that by the law
the Commissioners were restricted from using any land, until it was acquired by purchase
or…
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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.
Much trouble was experienced in satisfying the land owners along
the line of the proposed aqueduct, who made vexations demands,
among them the extraordinary one (expressed in a memorial to the
legislature) that the legal possession and use of the…
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Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. II, No. 7. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
The settlement and cultivated land of
Jonas Bronck seems to have been made
in that part of the Ranachqua tract directly
opposite Harlem, west of the marshes and
bogs along Mill brook, as is indicated in
the crude map accompanying…