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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.
…They marked out a route from Macomb's
Dam to the Bronx River, which they declared to be the proper one
for the long desired supply, and added: "The Croton cannot be
brought in by this route, and cannot ever…
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.
…Weston, the engineer of the canal companies
of the State, was employed to thoroughly inquire into the matter. Dr. Brown's plan was to dam the Bronx about half a mile below
Williams's Bridge. Calculating, however, that the elevation…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
…the river, from the deep water just above the mouth of
Schohara Creek, and on the north side of the river, until it shall
descend the river as far as to gain height sufficient to enter the
bank below the…
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…Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater after the construction of the New Croton Dam in 1905; Now located about thirty feet below the water's surface in the new dam. P Panic…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…ALONG THE RIVER BELOW TROY
Troy is the capital of Rensselaer County, the head of
tide- water in the Hudson, the site of the State dam
and of various manufacturing concerns. It is a busy
place and owes much of…
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…The Great Fire of 1835 and the cholera epidemic of 1832 (a victim of whom is illustrated below) were two of the most catastrophic instances of these periodic phenomena; occurring on the eve of the construction of the Croton system…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…The course of the Bronx immediately below the mill is said to
have been formerly changed by a large beaver dam, which those
industrious animals had erected near the foot of Mr. Underbill's
garden. Beaver Pond lies directly north…
Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906.
…weir or dam for impounding fish. Such dams or fishing places became boundmarks in some cases. The name was corrupted to Nomin-ack, as the name of a church
and of a fort three or four miles below what is…
Interview with Hopkins, James
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Macdonald, John. Interview with Hopkins, James, c.1767-1859; (1848-11-10). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1685. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
…Mosier's party and the prisoners then escaped to the woods. The Hessians used to say: "Dam me de Rebel!"
Captain Pritchard lay at Roger Lyons, Squire Sam's grand father, on the place now owned by Samuel Wright Carpenter…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…This project is divided into the following sub-projects: Pathfinder reservoir and dam, on the
river three miles below the mouth of the
Sweetwater ; the Interstate Canal, on the
north side of the river in Wyoming and Nebraska, and the…
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.
…About 1700 he dammed Tippet's
Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably
not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill,
which until as recent a date as 1889 (when it came into…
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.
…On the 26th of April, 1837, bids were opened " for furnishing 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 Kill, and the…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
Another mill seems to have
become necessary at this time, for in November 1701, "the town by a
maigor vote doth agree that their corn mill shall be set upon beucr dam
Riuerat the first conueniant place below davids broock…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…the King's road
below the hill on P''ordham Manor to the highway
leading to the Fordham Meeting-house. The meetinghouse which was the old J)utch Church formerly
stood at the junction of the Macomb's Dam road…
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…of the hill against which the masonry of the dam is built, a distance of over 200 feet. This tunnel descends into the Reservoir, so that the centre of it at the mouth is about 12 feet below the sur…
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…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…
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…Culvert, ------ 90 Tunnel and Gate Chamber at the head of the Aqueduct, - - 92 View above the Croton Dam, ------ 95 Entablature over the entrance to the Aqueduct, - 96 View below the Croton Dam, ------ 98 Croton Aqueduct at Sing-Sing, - - - - - 101 Aqueduct…
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miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…
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…Farley figure 15, below: Robert Havell. 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…
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…Farley Kemp Inverted siphons As indicated, it is possible to carry an aqueduct below the hydraulic grade line, which is the free surface of the water, diverting it Into pipes which can descend into valleys and rise on the other…
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completed in 1890 and the New Croton Dam, designed to meet the ever-increasing demands for fresh water from New York City, was completed in 1907 after 15 years of construction. Construction of New Croton Dam, 1901 Source: History of…
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…Steinberg, "Dam Breaking in the 19th Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham Valley," The Journal of Social History v.24 (Fall 1990). #1, 31. The argument is more fully developed in Steinberg's Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and…
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…as the Highland Turnpike, nearly eleven miles south of the Old Croton Dam. Type Sign Current Designation(s) Type Current Designation(s) Interpretation Structure Guide Rugged in landscape, the original park wrapped around the High Service Reservoir. At the turn…
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…A series of short flights of bluestone steps broken by generous gneiss landings linked the entrance to High Bridge, at the top of the hill, to the road and wharf on the river below. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current…