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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…It shall be the duty of the Water Commissioners of the city of New York, to finish and complete the aqueduct for supplying the said city with water, down to and including the distributing reservoir at Murray's hill, according…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…a view of the dam on the Croton River — the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms of the city of New- York in basso relievo. The silk on…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…A very serious loss, the first that deserves the name, occurred to the work on the night of the 7th January, 1841, by a great and sudden rise in the water of the Croton, and consequently of the Croton Lake…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…That all the water of the Croton may be taken from near its mouth and brought to the city of New York in an aqueduct, declining 15 inches in a mile, and delivered in a reservoir on Murray's Hill…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Lawrence, Esq., President of the Croton Aqueduct Board : Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Board of Water Commissioners : — In receiving, with my associates of the Croton Aqueduct Board, the custody of the work committed to us, I take the occasion…
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comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
…The Croton Trails Committee completed a Village Trailway Master Plan in 1993, establishing and mapping an interconnected Village-wide network of existing and proposed trails that link open space sites, and connect to the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway that runs…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…The following Table shows the solid contents of the Thames water* London, and of the Croton water t in the city of New-York. * Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to inquire into the supply…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Randolph, Aid to the Grand Marshal — comprising Commissioners of Croton Aqueduct Board. 1. Water Commissioners and Ex- water Commissioners. 2. Members of the Society of Cincinnati. 3. Mayors of New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Troy, Jersey City, and Newark, in carriages…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…But fortunately, 152 no arguments are needed in this place to convince the citizens of New-York that pure Croton water needs no corrective, — and that it is the sworn enemy of Jire, whether in the shape of alcoholic poison…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Rendering of the proposed blue-painted line running the length of the Old Croton Aqueduct, as well as a temporary QR code sign painted on the sidewalk Facing Page: Rendering of medium-sized sign panels installed on the New Ossining…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
New-York (Croton water fountain and view to tip of Manhattan), 1849. lithograph of Sarony & Major. NY. published by John Bachman. NY The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 74.0.49. Photo: J. Kennedy Kroessler During the first half of…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Instead of designing a new large signage scheme, we would like to work with Croton signs that have recently been proposed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, designed by Nancy Owens Studio. These signs are three…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Therefore in the following section we will present a survey of existing interpretation of the Croton Waterworks, as well as a range of proposed interpretation. Plan/Guidelines 50 as is the case for the Old Croton Aqueduct portion of the…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…a distance of about eighteen miles from the city, in New-Jersey. The objections to this project were, that it would be going into another state, that an Aqueduct bridge over the Hudson River would obstruct its navigation, and iron…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
CROTON AQUEDUCT. 219 were drawn up in writing, of which Cato has preserved to us a specimen in his book on agriculture." In reference to the Aqua Appia, the same writer makes this statement : " The pride of a princely patrician…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…This software is still relatively new and continues to be fine-tuned. However, some structures of the Croton Waterworks, such as the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir and the New Croton Dam, have proven recognizable by this program. http://www.google…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…A sampling of maintenance tasks specific to the Croton system would include routine weeding, rock maintenance along the Aqueduct berm, and the exterior cleaning of ventilators. Rehabilitation and Reuse In the case that more attention and resources can be devoted…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…DODGE, Ass't Ald'n., > CROTON AQUEDUCT. From the Consul of Frankfort. The undersigned, Consul of Frankfort on the Main, feels honored by the invitation of the Honorable Common Council of the city of New York, of the 26th September…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
Croton River, the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border, surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms of the city of New York, in basso relievo. . The silk on which the design is portrayed, measures 9…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…However, even sites that are that are maintained and easily accessible (such as the New Croton Dam and the North Gatehouse in Central Park) often lack on-site interpretation. Additional sites contain plaques commemorating the construction of a structure, yet…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
of the country, is to be found in the impure water, with which the former are so generally supplied, and we may confidently predict, that in consequence mainly of the introduction of the Croton River into the City of New
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CROTON AQUEDUCT SHALL PASS THE HARLEM RIVER. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : § 1. The Water Commissioners shall construct an aqueduct
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comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
Croton Aqueduct System and borders the Croton River, it does not tap into the reservoir system for its water. Instead its water supply comes directly from sand and gravel aquifers pumped from three deep wells under the Croton River Basin…
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hudson_river_source_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
a new aqueduct, commenced in 1884 and finished in 1890, was constructed to the east of the earlier one. This has a capacity three times as great as the first, and taps the numerous lakes of a water- shed embracing…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…of 232 CELEBRATION OF THE New York, in the celebration of an event, as important to the interests, as it is honorable to the character, of your city. The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, and the supply- ing of a…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…GENTLEMEN : — I have this day received your polite invitation from the Common Council of the city of New York, to join with them on the 14th instant, to celebrate the introduction of the Croton water into the City of New
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hudson_river_source_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…269 Cozzens's hotel at West Point, 382 Crane, Ichabod, 243, 249, 509, 510 Creasey, Sir Edward, 561 Crispell, 469 Crommelin, Daniel, 262 Crom-Pond road, 318 Cro' Nest, 116, 357 Crosby, Enoch, 417 Croton, 112, 224, 436 Croton Aqueduct
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…MORRIS, and sung in front of the Park Fountain, by the Members of the New York Sacred Music Society, on the completion of the Croton Aqueduct. CELEBRATED OCTOBER XIV, MDCCCXLII. Gushing from this living fountain, Music pours a falling strain…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Stein, relating to the route, modes of construction, and cost 34 134 MEMOIR OF THfi thereof, of an aqueduct from the Croton, that on all hands being adopted as the only ad* visable plan. As in a subsequent part of…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…By adding a small quantity of this to the common well water of New-York, a copious, white, flocculent precipitate is immediately formed, which is the chloride of soda. The same test, however, applied to the Croton water, pro- duces…
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