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…Croton aqueduct carries the water to the Digitized by Microsoft® 294 The Hudson River city. Its capacity is 100,000,000 gallons a day, but this supply was found to be inadequate for the rapidly growing city, and a new…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Farther down, but west of Jones Ave-nue, is " Anderson Park," with its fine brick mansion CROTON AQUEDUCT BRIDGE ACROSS THE POCANTICO. and well-kept grounds. The house was built and, for a time, occupied by the late John Anderson…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Thomas Scharf (1886)] To which Andre wb OLD LANDRINE HOUSE, taken alter his capture, and where he ■at on the ste| Michael Nolan, who farms, and boards some of the people connected with the construction of the New Croton aqueduct…
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…the Chief Engineer. New York, 10th October, 1842. To CLARKSON CROLIUS, Esq., Chairman Committee of Invitation ) for Croton Aqueduct celebration. $ Sin:— I received the invitation of Committee to attend the celebration of the introduction of the Croton water into the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The next place, called " The Homestead," extend-ing from the Croton Aqueduct on the west to Broad-way on the east, was the residence of the late Henry R. Worthington, and is still occupied by his family. The house was…
Library of Congress, Music Division — https://www.loc.gov/item/2023798664/
…Williams (1813-1903), an African-American composer from Boston, wrote this waltz in 1844 to celebrate the Croton Aqueduct's introduction of clean water to New York City. It is one of the most historically significant pieces of Croton-related…
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…every twenty-four hours ; which is about the quantity calculated to be delivered by the aqueduct, and nearly the average quantity running in the Croton. River. It is proposed, therefore, to insert only two of these pipes at present ; they…
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…Now, although this CROTON AQUEDUCT, 127 last proposition carries with it the semblance of feasibility, there is, nevertheless, noth- ing new in it : for he only offers to remove the dam from the place selected by our engi- neer, to…
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…Engineer's Office, 1st division Croton Aqueduct, Sing Sing, October 11, 1842. GENTLEMEN : — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, and to signify my acceptance, of the invitation to join with the Common Council of the city of New…
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…Rejecting the Bronx River as yielding an inadequate supply, the Commissioners proposed tap- ping the Croton watershed. The estimated cost for a dam across the Croton River, the aqueduct, and reservoirs was $4,150,000, with an additional $1,262…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The division line has not been offi-cially defined with accuracy, but is assumed to follow Yonkers Avenue from the Bronx to the Croton aque-duct; thence by the aqueduct to the arches crossing the Saw-Mill River, and down…
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…The contractors for the new dam in the Croton, for instance, were bound to have it in such an advanced stage by 1st November of this year, as to throw two feet water from the lake into the aqueduct. The…
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…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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…CROTON AQUEDUCT. 177 This report closes with a general recapitulation of the work done, of the difficulties overcome, and of the nature, form, and materials of the aqueduct, all which we propose to present in a connected form, after the…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/06/10/celebrating-high-bridge/
Celebrating High Bridge
High Bridge stands as one of America's most significant early engineering achievements and New York City's oldest existing bridge. Originally designed as a component of the Old Croton Aqueduct system, this structure conveyed water across…
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…By 1815, the Collect had disappeared, but Canal Street remained. '° Writing after completion of the Croton system. Dr. Charles A. Lee concluded that without the new aqueduct, the City's water sup- ply would have soon been inadequate, for the…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Cornelia Beekman laid out new roads, and sold all the land south of Beekman Avenue, in building lots. At that time there were only twelve houses west of the Croton Aqueduct. Beekman Avenue being in many places four rods wide…
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…By 1815, the Collect had disappeared, but Canal Street remained. '° Writing after completion of the Croton system. Dr. Charles A. Lee concluded that without the new aqueduct, the City's water sup- ply would have soon been inadequate, for the…
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…Thus, the decades of the Jacksonian era saw commercial growth amidst new social cleav- ages along racial, ethnic, and class lines. This was the city which built the Croton Aqueduct. The lack of an adequate water supply obviously did not…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2015/03/18/the-mystery-of-the-underhill-medal/
…By 1824, he relocated to New York City, maintaining his shop at 249 Broadway until his death.
Lovett also designed the medal commemorating the Old Croton Aqueduct's opening on October 14, 1842.
The Unsolved Mystery
Despite extensive research, the…
Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children (1854), Internet Archive
[Poem] "The New-York Boy's Song" by Lydia Maria Child (1842, published 1854 in Flowers for Children). Written to celebrate the opening of the Old Croton Aqueduct which brought clean water to New York City on October 14, 1842…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…This bill, which provides for the construction of a dam or dams across the Croton River in order to secure an increased water supply in New York, will submerge much of the valuable landed property in the southern part of…
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…from the mouth of the Croton river, six million gallons of water every twenty-four hours ; and for two million seven hundred thousand dollars, to introduce sixteen million of gallons into the city of New York, at an elevation of…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The Martin Smith house is now rented and used as the office and headquarters of Brown, Howard & Co., contractors to build an important section of the new Croton Aqueduct. The long iron bars, the kerosene barrels, the fragments of machinery…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…He was a resident during the time ■when the Croton Aqueduct and the Hudson River Railroad were in process of construction. Mr. Con-stant is remembered as a man of agreeable manners, with a charming domestic circle about him, and…
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…With such examples be- fore us, we may consider that by the construction of the Croton Aqueduct for supplying the City of New- York with water has been secured an important measure for the pro- motion of its growth. Many…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…Spooner (1900)] Jervis, the engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, being em-ployed as chief engineer. Work was begun toward the middle of 1847, the entire line being placed under contract by sections, and the work was prosecuted so diligently that…
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…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…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…Their first care was to stake out the lake to bo formed by damming the Croton, which it was at first calculated would have an area of 496 acres. But it was nearly two years before construction work was actually…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…They extended from the Andre Brook northward to within thirty rods of where the Croton Aqueduct spans the post road with its arch between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, and from the Hudson River eastward across the Pocantico River, well on…