…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…

…Depew.1 In theVear 1880 works for increasing New York City's water supply from Westchester County were commenced, which are still in prog-ress; for although the new Croton Aqueduct was completed in 1891, 1 See Smith's Manual…

…GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 559 plies had to be procured — through the Bronx River conduit (1880-85) and the New Croton Aqueduct (1884-93). In this chapter we have undertaken to follow the successive events of principal importance from…

…Spooner (1900)] On the 26th of April, 1837, bids were opened " for furnish-ing 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…

…Old Croton Aqueduct, 95,000,000 gallons; Bronx River Conduit, 28,-000,000 gallons; New Croton Aqueduct, 300,000,000 gallons— total, 425^000,000 gallons. With the completion of the works now in their last stages, the supply obtainable…

…When it became certain, in 1831, that the water-supply problem was to find its solution in a continuous aqueduct from the Croton — such a continuous aqueduct being practicable in this case because of the Croton's sufficiently lofty elevation…

…At five o'clock on the morning of the 22d of June, water to the depth of eighteen inches was admitted into the aqueduct from Croton Lake. A boat called the 4k Croton Maid," carrying four persons, was placed in…

…Croton Lake and Stjbkcnjndings.1 — In the southeastern por-tion of the town, and extending into thetownof'Somers, lies Croton Lake, the source of the water supply of New York City, which is formed by the damming of the waters…

…Most of the particulars of the first sivcly, however, on the old aqueduct anil ante-aqueduct in our text arc digested from Mr. cedent conditions) is the " Memoir, etc., of (he King's " Memoir." Croton Aqueduct," compiled by Charles King…

…an elevation above the brook of over one lain-I dred feet. "The Croton Arch" is a very striking feature of our village. The new aqueduct, now in course of construction, will pass subterraneoiisly through the whole length of the…

…The new aqueduct is to start from the present dam, and is to be cylindrical in shape and fourteen feet in diam-eter. The territory drained by the Croton River amounts to three hundred and thirty-eight square miles.

…The Sing Sing Kill, where it crosses the line of the aqueduct, runs in a deep and narrow gulf, the bottom of which is sixty-three feet below the grade line. The aqueduct bridge, which covers the gulf, is immense.

…The earliest religious services of the Roman Cath-olic Church in Yonkers were held among the Cath-olic laborers upon the Croton Aqueduct in 1830-39, by the Rev. James Cummiskey of St. Joseph's Church, New York, a church…

…The cost of building the new reservoir has been estimated at :S7,7!H1,.">$<>, and the aqueduct at $16,664,808. The new reservoir will receive the en-tire, drainage of the Croton water-shed, and thirty-two billion gallons…

…Moreover, the original calculations of the total probable cost of the aqueduct from the Croton had by this time been found to be ridiculously small, and it began to be realized that the ultimate aggregate would approximate or exceed $10…

…War 41)7 Chapter XXIV Genera] History of the County Concluded — From the Revolution to the Completion of the Croton Aqueduct ( 1842) 526 Chapter XXV General History of the County Concluded 573 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY CHAPTER I PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION…

…In April, 1837, work was com-menced in constructing the dam across the Croton River about five miles above its mouth, and in build-ing the aqueduct. John B. Jcrvis was chief in-gineer. On the 7th of January, 1841…

…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…

…500,000 Total 8672,500 June 22, 1842, the water was let into Croton Aque-duct for the first time, and on the following day was received into the reservoir at Eighty -sixth Street, in New York. On the 4th…

…Spooner (1900)] The public mind shrank from such a tremendous and seemingly fantastic pro-ceeding as the construction of an aqueduct from the far distant Croton; whereas the Bronx, running straight down into the Harlem River, seemed to have been…

…4m--^-" THE GREAT FIRE OF 1835 (NEW YORK CITY). mitted his report in the November following. " Major Douglass ad-hered unfalteringly to the conviction that the Croton, and the Croton only, should be looked to and relied on. Like the…

…The beginning of the gigantic Croton Aqueduct enterprise dates from about the same time as the chartering of the first Westchester County railroad. On November 10, 1832, the joint committee on tire and water of the New York City common…

…The Croton Dam sets the river back about five miles. The water is conducted to a gateway located on solid rock to the head of the aqueduct on the YORKTOWN. Kir, southern shore, by a tunnel cut a hundred and…

…CHAPTER XXIY GENERAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY CONTINUED FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE COMPLETION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT (1842) N a previous chapter we have briefly noticed the organiza-tion of the State government of New York on the 20th…

…we have the new " Mechanic " (now New Main) Street, opened to the southward from the Square. The course of the Croton Aqueduct, completed in 1842, is also noted. At this date all buildings on the map of 1813 yet remained…

…Farther down, but west of Jones Ave-nue, is " Anderson Park," with its fine brick mansion CROTON AQUEDUCT BRIDGE ACROSS THE POCANTICO. and well-kept grounds. The house was built and, for a time, occupied by the late John Anderson…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] To which Andre wb OLD LANDRINE HOUSE, taken alter his capture, and where he ■at on the ste| Michael Nolan, who farms, and boards some of the people connected with the construction of the New Croton aqueduct…

…The next place, called " The Homestead," extend-ing from the Croton Aqueduct on the west to Broad-way on the east, was the residence of the late Henry R. Worthington, and is still occupied by his family. The house was…

…The division line has not been offi-cially defined with accuracy, but is assumed to follow Yonkers Avenue from the Bronx to the Croton aque-duct; thence by the aqueduct to the arches crossing the Saw-Mill River, and down…

…Cornelia Beekman laid out new roads, and sold all the land south of Beekman Avenue, in building lots. At that time there were only twelve houses west of the Croton Aqueduct. Beekman Avenue being in many places four rods wide…