…great High Bridge. Over the bridge, which crosses the Harlem Valley and the river, the water thus brought is conveyed in immense iron pipes, so huge that a very tall man can stand erect within them. Then the aqueduct of…

…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…

…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 aqueduct which conveys the water from Croton Lake to New York city, forms a bridge over Saw-mill river at Yonkers. In the county twenty-five streams cross the line of the Croton aqueduct, which are from twelve to…

…It is the old aqueduct 10 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY which crosses the Harlem River over High Bridge; the new is carried underneath the stream. Iii3|j* South of the Croton River the next Hudson tributary of interest is the…

…The greatest interior width of the aqueduct is seven feet five inches, and the greatest height, eight feet HIGH BRIDGE. and heavy filling in deep ravines. There are on the line sixteen tunnels, varying in length from a hundred and…

…The "High Bridge" was contracted for in August, 1839. Soon afterward the works on Manhattan Island were placed under con-tract. Tin' original water commissioners appointed in 1833 * retired in March, 1840, and were succeeded by Samuel Stevens, Benjamin Bird…

…1866, to December 31, 1882, according WATER TOWER AT HIGH BRIDGE. thirty thousand at the present rate of consumption — about seventy-five gallons a day per capita. The new aqueduct is to start from the present dam, and is to…

…Spooner (1900)] development was effected by the extension of the line from High Bridge to the terminus of the Elevated Railway at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street, and by the building of the branch from Van Cort-landt Station…