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…Current Designation(s) Sign MUSCOOT DAM 1905 Plate 15-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) MILL RIVER WASTE WEIR 1837-1841 Plate 22-6, Old Croton Aqueduct Spanning a depression 72 feet below grade, the Mill River Culvert’s 172…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Commencing at the south side of the
gate chamber at the Croton dam,
The 1st plane of Aqueduct extends 26099.72 ft. or 4,943 miles, and the descent 2.94 ft. The 2d plane of do. extends 148121.25ft…
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…Ogee Shape of the Weir Overflow figure 25. below left: Lt. Theophilus Schramke. Croton Dam Design — Cross Section of Ogee Curve, engraving In Description of the Sen' York Croton Aqueduct in English, German and French, 1846 Courtesy William Lee Frost…
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…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) AMAWALK GATEHOUSE 1889-1896 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Located south of the main dam, the gatehouse receives water from the tower and sends it to the fountain…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
The following report of the engineers is entitled :
" Estimate of expense to make the Croton river navigable for boats of two
tons."
The falls at Croton river with a lock, £350
The falls below the Old bridge, 250
Small rapid…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…Although the contract drawings , upon which the contract was based , indicated " hard rock " at a depth of 75 feet below the bed of the river , yet it was found necessary to excavate the founda- tion pit to a depth of…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found . The removal of this soft rock and the replacing…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found . The removal of this soft rock and the replacing…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The line cuts a small section of marble of inferior quality, about two miles below the Croton dam. In running through the State farm
at Sing Sing, it passes a few hundred feet
(mostly by a tunnel) in a marble…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The
sand and rock within the coffer dam will then be excavated to the proper level of foundation of the masonry ;
in the progress of which the bottom of the coffer, below the frame,
will require to be secured by…
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…The water is set back at this place by a dam for a mill a short distance below, giving the stream an appearance of more magnitude than it really possesses. This point is 25 miles from the dam. The wall…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…this loose and disintegrated rock has been removed to the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found .
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…this loose and disintegrated rock has been removed to the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found .
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…this loose and disintegrated rock has been removed to the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found .
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…this loose and disintegrated rock has been removed to the depth of 75 feet below the base of the core wall , for it is only at this great depth that a suitable foundation for extending the dam has been found .
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…The line was divided into four divisions, the first extending from the Croton ten and one-half miles
to below Sing Sing, the second ten miles farther to Hastings, the
third ten miles to Fordham Church, and the fourth ten…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…It is presumed that the mason work of the dam, will derive additional strength from
the extension of the time of its construction. The remaining part of the aqueduct proper, in Westchester, being the second, third,
and part of the…
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…This secondary dam is formed of round timber, brush wood, and gravel ; it may be seen in the picture directly under the bridge which extends across below the main structure. On the upstream side of the masonry of the dam…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The bottom of the water way, of the Aqueduct, where
it leaves the gate chamber is 11.40 feet below the surface
of the Fountain Reservoir, and 154.77 feet above the level of
mean tide at the city of…
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…The point of land which sheltered the Half Moon was known to
the Indians as Senasqua. The rushing river, emptying its fresh waters
into the salty Hudson below Senasqua was named after the chief of
the Kitchawan tribe of Indians…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
Brown's plan was to dam the Bronx about half a mile below
Williams's Bridge. Calculating, however, that the elevation
the
Bronx at that point was not sufficient to admit of drawing the of
water
to the city by…
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…The bottom of the water-way of the Aqueduct at the gate chamber where it enters the Receiving Reservoir, is 7.86 feet below the level of top water line in the Reservoir, thus when the Reservoir is full the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…dam
from the place selected by our engineer, to a position some miles below it, while he follows the precise line designated by our
report, and adopts the very objectionable plan of carrying the water in a large open canal…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Old Croton Aqueduct Residing 105 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct’s grade, Manhattan Valley, two miles south of High Bridge, was traversed by an inverted siphon of cast iron pipes. MIDDLE BRANCH DAM 1874-1878 Plate 4-, New Croton…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…three quarters from the dam. This
River runs through Sleepy Hollow and enters the Hudson
about a mile and a half above Tarrytown. The stream is
72 feet below the bottom of the Aqueduct, and the valley
being of considerable…
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dam, an em- bankment of earth is filled in, extending 275 feet from the masonry at the base, and extending from the masonry with a slope of 1 foot in 5 on the top. The whole work about the dam…
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…All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Bridge also — leaving no crossing over the Croton from its mouth to Golden's bridge ....■^^ The newspaper account provides…
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…much below on the other (figure 13). No great varia- tion would have been possible. Jervis also concurred with the loca- tion of the dam at Garretson's Mill, seven miles upstream from the Croton's junction with the Hudson…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…11 COAL WHARF c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type A wharf on the Harlem River below Shaft Number 25 that received coal shipments to power the engines in the pump house and Shaft Number 25. Type Significance…