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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source📕 Full PDF
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…
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America
…Coverage of the Croton Water Celebration in New York City on October 14, 1842. The celebration marked the arrival of clean water from the Croton River via the 41-mile Old Croton Aqueduct designed by chief engineer John B. Jervis…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…The Old Croton Aqueduct has been decommissioned, and contains more visible physical markers, while the New Croton Aqueduct is still online and has adapted over time
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
Historical Society, New York, Gift of Comella F. Muddlman and Anna E. Muddlman, 1959.90 Fayette B. Tower, Croton Aqueduct at Haarlem River (High Bridge), c.1842 Ink with watercolor wash on paper; 4 V2 x 9 V2 inches Mrs…
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…Later, in 1992, the National Register designation was amended to designate the Old Croton Aqueduct as a National Historic Landmark. This amendment introduced the submerged portions between the Old and New Croton Dams, as well as the Aqueduct beginning in…
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George Pope Morris, Poems (1853), Project Gutenberg
…God save the Corporation! Long live the valiant Mayor! The poem captures the civic importance of the Croton Aqueduct — even in a humorous summer poem, Croton water is the answer to New York's suffering.
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) — source📕 Full PDF
…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…
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…Especially important to this reuse proposal is the involvement of stakeholding organizations located in New York City and Westchester County. Shafts The Croton Waterworks shafts are associated with the construction and maintenance of the New Croton Aqueduct, which is still…
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…So, that was the Old Croton Aqueduct that actually still runs today through the middle of the Village of Ossining. So I think one of the motivating factors was, when I went through the Ossining schools, none of my teachers…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2016/05/22/blacksmiths-at-the-new-croton-dam-1895/
The Ossining Historical Society Museum houses a remarkable photographic collection documenting the Old Croton Aqueduct. During a recent visit, curator Norm MacDonald shared newly acquired materials, including two rare photographs capturing blacksmiths at the New Croton Dam from September 1895…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Enough is known, nevertheless, to prove that the conduits are beyond the influence of frost — and, constructed as they are, with fidelity and of the best materials, a duration may be anticipated for the Croton aqueduct equal to that of…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Bornet, Croton [Distributing] Reservoir, 1850, published by J. Hoff, colored lithograph Courtesy The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum ol the City of New York. 29.100.2103 figure 50, right: David Johnson. Harlem River Aqueduct. 1860. oil on canvas Courtesy…
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Croton Friends of History
…The Croton River and Aqueduct Navigating upriver proved challenging due to tidal currents. The Croton River, originally named Kitch-a-wan meaning "large and swift current," became crucial to New York City's water supply. Beginning in 1837, authorities constructed…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source📕 Full PDF
…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…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…MEMOIR CROTON AQUEDUCT. MEMOIR CROTON AQUEDUCT. AT A very early day the want of a sufficient supply, and a convenient distribution of good water, was felt by the citizens of New- York. Before the declaration of independence, considerable expenditures had…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…abundant facilities for such purposes." The total cost of the aqueduct, from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir inclusive, will be nearly 9,000,000 of dollars, New- York, 27th July, 1842. The unfinished portions of the work, chiefly…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source📕 Full PDF
…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.
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…Martineau and Douglass, was a closed Aqueduct of masonry. These gentlemen each made an estimate of the cost of bringing the water of the Croton River to the city of New- York by a closed Aqueduct of masonry, and the…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source📕 Full PDF
…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.
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
masonry on the aqueduct, with- in the tunnels, 2476 feet, being an increase, during the last six months, of 1964 feet in length. 4th. Foundation and Protection Wall — The foundation wall now laid, amounts CROTON AQ.UEDUCT. 175 to 115…
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Library of Congress, Music Division (item 2023798259)
…Drink! drink! the draught to cheer the soul / From chrystal streamlets clear") Date: 1842 Location: New York Type: document Subjects: sheet music, Croton Aqueduct Text visible in image: Drink! drink! the draught to cheer the soul / From chrystal streamlets clear…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…There has been a flare-up amongst the Irish laborers on the Croton Aqueduct occasioned by the contractors reducing their wages from $1 to 75 cents/day. Large numbers turned out and marched from Westchester to Harlem, prevented others from…
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…A proposed architectural competition poster calling for a new fountain design for the 119th Street Gatehouse Proposed Interpretation by Typology Keepers’ Houses Although six keepers’ houses once existed along the length of the Old Croton Aqueduct, only the keeper’s…
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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…national engineering society of the same name, founded in 1852 and headquartered in New York City. As soon as Jervis took charge of the Croton Aqueduct construc- tion, he moved to revitalize the Engineering Department based upon his experience in…
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886) — source📕 Full PDF
…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…
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crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/09/02/the-ultimate-birds-eye-view-of-manhattan/
…The article highlights specific locations relevant to Croton history, including the Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir at Central Park and the Distributing Reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street—now the site of the New York Public Library.
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…The Common Council lost no time in passing an ordinance authorising the Comp- troller to issue stock for this new loan, and on 21st May they constituted, by resolution, a Committee on the Croton Aqueduct, to be composed of a…
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
New-York has accomplished ; particularly when it is considered that this is only one of the parts which make up the whole. From Clendinning Valley the Aqueduct soon reaches the Receiving Reservoir which is thirty-eight miles from the Croton
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…The New York Times announces the completion of the South Gatehouse at the new Central Park Reservoir and invites the public to visit and marvel at this feature of the “Croton Aqueduct, which, with these latest connections, presents a specimen…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…The result of these examinations carries the aqueduct from the Harlem River to the receiving reservoir as follows : it commences on the New York side of the river, at the effluent pipe chamber, on land belonging, or lately belonging, to…
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