…This bill, which provides for the construction of a dam or dams across the Croton River in order to secure an increased water supply in New York, will submerge much of the valuable landed property in the southern part of…

…The Martin Smith house is now rented and used as the office and headquarters of Brown, Howard & Co., contractors to build an important section of the new Croton Aqueduct. The long iron bars, the kerosene barrels, the fragments of machinery…

…He was a resident during the time ■when the Croton Aqueduct and the Hudson River Railroad were in process of construction. Mr. Con-stant is remembered as a man of agreeable manners, with a charming domestic circle about him, and…

…Spooner (1900)] Jervis, the engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, being em-ployed as chief engineer. Work was begun toward the middle of 1847, the entire line being placed under contract by sections, and the work was prosecuted so diligently that…

…Their first care was to stake out the lake to bo formed by damming the Croton, which it was at first calculated would have an area of 496 acres. But it was nearly two years before construction work was actually…

…They extended from the Andre Brook northward to within thirty rods of where the Croton Aqueduct spans the post road with its arch between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, and from the Hudson River eastward across the Pocantico River, well on…

…No new village was incorporated between 1830 and 1810..This decade is memorable for the projection of the first railway enter-prise in which Westchester County was interested, ami the inception and approximate completion of the grand Croton Aqueduct. The…

…A stone " mansion," probably only one story high, then stood where the Croton Aqueduct meets Main Street, which not only served Moses Ward as a dwelling, but also as a fortress for defense against the Indians. While writing this sketch…

…Spooner (1900)] the legis-lature authorized the construction of the necessary works, and on the 21th of June, 1891, the second aqueduct was finished and turned over to the department of public works of New York City. Since 1888 the…

…The greater population of 1840 was probably due to the inclusion in the census at that time of the numer-ous workmen employed on the Croton Aqueduct. As classified by occupations in 1845, the adult males of the county included…

…The fac-tory takes its name from the large arch of the Croton Aqueduct, which is situated near it. It was started in 1848. It has passed through numerous changes of proprietors and is at present operated by a stock…

…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 was succeeded by M. Brown…

…We walked along Main Street on sidewalks of mud or ashes, and near where the Croton Aqueduct crosses this street were rude steps of hoards and pegs. The long and handsome line of stores and neat sidewalks now to be…

…Augistixe's Romax Catholic Church. — During the building of the Croton Aqueduct through Sing Sing religious services were conducted for the laborers, who were mostly Irish Roman Catholics, by a priest. A plot of ground was purchased on the Post…

…Rice at its eastern end, is the high stone viaduct erected to make a way for the old Croton Aqueduct across the Pocantico River. The building of this viaduct is connected with an amusing anecdote concerning the late George Law…

…Aside from the building of the railways, there were not many events of local importance in Westchester County from tin-completion of the Croton Aqueduct until 1850. Two new townships were erected — Ossining (1845) and West Farms (1840), and the…

…Ward Carpenter & Son, surveyors and civil engineers, so well known in Westchester County for their painstaking accuracy, with a view to determine what part of the new aqueduct, now in process of construction, lay within the township of Mount Pleasant…

…They made a thorough re-examination of the matter, concluding with the opinion that "the whole [Croton] river can be brought to Murray Hill in a close aqueduct of masonry, at an expense of $4, 250,000, " and that the…

…Aspin-wall, the latter extending well up to where the old Croton Aqueduct crosses the road. But between Broadway and the Hudson River on the west, there is the old Philipse Manor house, with the old mill just across the…