…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s) 25 NEW CROTON DAM GATEHOUSE 1892-1906 Plate 18-3, New Croton Aqueduct NEW CROTON GATEHOUSE 1890 Plate 13-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Constructed on the upstream side of…

Current Designation(s) SHAFT NUMBER 11C Plate 23-9, New Croton Aqueduct SHAFT NUMBER 10 Plate 22-15, New Croton Aqueduct Engineers designed Shaft Number 10 to be sunk to a depth of 126 feet. Type Significance(s) Current Designation…

…WEST BRANCH SUPERVISOR’S HOUSE c 1895 Plate 2-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Structure Guide Type Appendix WEST BRANCH BARN c 1895 Plate 2-, New Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s…

…30 Sign Current Designation(s) POCANTICO OPEN-CUT c 1888 Plate 22-11, New Croton Aqueduct Type PIPE YARD (Demolished) Plate 34-1 Significance(s) Interpretation A portion of the New Croton Aqueduct was run through an open trench when…

…31 SHAFT NUMBER 0 Plate 13-, New Croton Aqueduct SHAFT NUMBER 2 Plate 19-3, New Croton Aqueduct Shaft Number 0 was dug at an incline on a grade of 12 feet per 100 feet. Shaft Number 2 was designed…

…Significance(s) Appendix CROTON FALLS DAM 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CROTON FALLS DIVERTING DAM 1911 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Earthen with a stepped…

Significance(s) Interpretation Sign DOBBS FERRY BARN c 1880s Plate 24-2, Old Croton Aqueduct A maintenance building for the use of the principal superintendent of the aqueduct north of New York City. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation…

…SOUTH YONKERS OPEN-CUT c 1888 Plate 28-XX, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) TITICUS DAM GATEHOUSE 1890-1895 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct Constructed on the upstream side of the masonry…

of the New, discharging the water into the east and western divisions Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign JEROME PARK KEEPER’S HOUSE c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29A-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Designed by F. S. Cook, the Jerome Park Keeper…

Designation(s) SHAFT NUMBER 25 STEPS AND RETAINING WALL c 1892 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type Marking the point where the New Croton Aqueduct entered Manhattan Island, Shaft Number 25 employed revolutionary engineering in its design. Significance(s) Interpretation…

…AMAWALK FOUNTAIN 1897 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign ARDSLEY OPEN-CUT c 1888s Plate 24-11, New Croton Aqueduct A single arched granite bridge stretching 160 feet, the Archville Bridge carried the Croton Aqueduct across…

…Aqueduct Bridge for Road-way, ----- 103 Croton Aqueduct at Mill-River, ... - 104 Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook, - - - 105 Croton Aqueduct at Hastings, ... - - 106 Croton Aqueduct at Yonkers, ----- 108 Croton Aqueduct at Harlem River, - - - - - 110 View of the Jet at…

…19 JEROME PARK BRIDGE c 1890 (Demolished) Plate 29A-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Type Elaborately arched, the bridge provided access to Shaft Number 21 from Gatehouse Number 5. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s…

…BOYD’S CORNERS DAM 1866-1870 (Demolished 1980s) Plate 1-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Simple in design, the Boyd’s Corners Dam was 670 feet long and 57 feet high. Stretching across the West Branch of the Croton River, the…

…http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/ home/home.shtml New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation (Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park): The segment of the Old Croton Aqueduct trailway located in the Old Croton Aqueduct State…

…Conclusion New York City Partners: Citywide New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation is in charge of the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway, the segment of the Croton aqueduct that runs…

…Helen Tower Wilson Theophlius Schramke, Description of the New York Croton Aqueduct In Elfish, Qarman and French, 1846 Book with 20 plates. New York and Berlin: printed by Mundt Court;esy of William Lee Frost Cathleen Polgreen, Aqueduct Overseer's…

…Old Croton Aqueduct, National Register of Historic Places (1974) 4. Old Croton Aqueduct running from Croton to New York City, National Historic Landmark in (1992) 5. The High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, National Register of Historic Places (1972) 6…

…1890s Contemporary print from original glass plate negative The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Gloeckner Newby Co., New Croton Dam, 1912 Photograph; 2V2X 9V2 Inches Collection of ESL Information Services, Engineering Societies' Library, New York, NY The New Aqueduct Passing…

…Farley The Old Croton aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Yonkers, New York 1992 Xhi s One 7WXT-: 5F-QFG4 figure 2: Fayette B. Tower, View above the Dam, in Illustrations of the Croton…

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

…Government establishes National Heritage Areas New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation purchases 26.2 miles (in Westchester County) of original 41-mile Old Croton Aqueduct from New York City M. Paul Friedberg designs Delacorte Fountain for…

…The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to the distributing reser- voir is 40.562 miles — to wit: ^ Masonry conduit in Westchester county 32.880 [Ditto ditto] on New-York Island 4.187 Total Length 37.067 Receiving reservoir…

…O Old Croton Aqueduct: Opened on October 14, 1842, as a forty-one-mile-long aqueduct bringing water to New York City from the Croton River in Westchester County; Became a National Historic Landmark in 1992. Old Croton Aqueduct State…

…Description of the New York Croton Aquedua in English, German and French. New York and Berlin: printed by Mundt, 1846. Society for Industrial Archaeology. Newsletter, vol. V, no.l (Jan. 1976). Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide 179TH STREET HIGH SERVICE WORKS 1894 (Demolished) Plate 29B-, New Croton Aqueduct Appendix 135TH STREET GATEHOUSE 1884-1890 (Adaptive Reuse - Harlem Stage) Plate 30-12, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Sign For more information, see…

great acclamation from the citizens of New York City. The High Bridge was not completed until 1848. Notes 1. Charles King, A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct (New York, 1843), p.220. 2. See…

…The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation maintains the Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, which is a linear park running along twenty-six miles of the Old Croton Aqueduct’s path. In New York City…

…Tower's book Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (1843), implied that the Aqueduct, while bringing New York City the necessary water to grow into a teaming metropolis, fit harmoniously into pastoral ideals of the landscape and, in fact, enhanced it…

…Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Gift of John…