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| king_memoir_1843_raw.txt | 217 | 172,824 | |
| hudson_river_source_raw.txt | 191 | 152,169 | |
| aqueduct_board_minutes_raw.txt | 136 | 108,070 | |
| croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt | 134 | 106,888 | |
| illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt | 66 | 52,703 | |
| croton_waterworks_raw.txt | 60 | 47,579 | |
| comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt | 58 | 46,131 | |
| old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt | 50 | 39,768 | |
| croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt | 23 | 18,214 | |
| housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt | 21 | 16,692 | |
| croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt | 14 | 11,057 | |
| comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt | 5 | 3,670 | |
| housing_proposals_2024_raw.txt | 3 | 1,831 | |
| coastal_zone_waterfront_raw.txt | 1 | 246 |
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
and wholesome water, to be sure at a great cost — nine millions of dollars, exclu- sive of the main and distributing pipes throughout the city, (now laid to the extent of 130 miles,) exclusive of the interest accumulating on the cost, being in all tw…
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dollar of the people's money has been lost or dishonestly applied, and he hoped that while the Corporation would adopt measures in reference to the water to meet the interest on the debt, they would be just to the rich, and liberal to the poor. In co…
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achieved. The obstacles have disappeared. The hill has been levelled or pierced, the stream and the valley have been overleaped, the rock has been smitten ! Nature, yielding to human industry, perseverance and skill, no longer withholds the boon she …
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ode, printed copies of which had been liberally distributed at the expense of the Corporation during the day : THE CROTON ODE. Written at the request of the Corporation of the City of New York, by GEORGE P. MORRIS, and sung in front of the Park Fount…
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surrounding com- munities, demands and receives my warmest gratitude. You have well observed, sir, that these multitudes have joined in this glorious pa- geant, not as curious spectators, but rather as joint owners of the great work whose com- pletio…
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the national character and dangerous to public morals ; but I cannot doubt that each and CROTON AQUEDUCT. 303 every of the defaulting communities which shall steadily and manfully persevere to the final completion of its works, will find in the resul…
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we are connected. There are other Atlantic ports besides New York, other Rivers besides the Hudson, other Canals and Rail Roads besides our own, other govern- ments besides the City Councils I address, and the Legislature of our State ; and although …
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of political institutions which give and secure to every man his equal share in the general rights, powers and duties of citizenship — amid this great convulsion, as it may be called — this mighty upheaving and commingling of society — where half a m…
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61 Greenock, 63 Paris, 63 Philadelphia, 76 Cincinatti, 78 Boston, 81 Albany, N. Y., 81 Troy. " " 81 Providence, R. I., 82 Richmond, Va., 82 308 INDEX. INDEX TO THE MEMOIR. PAGE. Analysis of Water, Manhattan, 107 " " Bronx River and Rye Ponds . 108 " …
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104 Wells, Artesian, 104, 29 White, Canvass— Engineer 101, 2, 3, 11, 12 Wright, Benjamin— Engineer, .... 102, 3, 6, 12, 15, 16 Woodruff, Mr., 178 THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW AN INITIAL PINE OP 25 CENTS WILL. BE ASSESSED FOR FAILUR…
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The Old Croton Aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The Hudson River Museum of Westchester The Old Croton Aqueduct figure 1: Section of the Aqueduct with Iron Lining, c. 1837-39. ink and watercolor on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawin…
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Dr. Jeffrey A. Kroessler, School of General Studies, Adelphi University, and History Department, Queens College, CUNY; Dr. F. Daniel Larkin, Professor of History and Chairman of the Histo- ry Department at SUNY Oneonta; and Roger Panetta, Professor o…
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island, without regard for such topo- graphic features as hills, swamps, streams, springs, or natural drainage. Conspicuously absent, of course, was any provision for public parks, and it is truly one of the triumphs of the 19th century that the City…
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The epidemic of 1798 took the lives of 2,000 New Yorkers. Writing to Noah Webster, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, one of the City's leading men of science, blamed urban conditions for the outbreak: "New York tliis time has a plague indeed. The scourge is ap…
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enveloped by it, and the backyard privies in the adjacent neighborhood leached their noxious contents into the soil, contaminating the rainwater that filtered through and drained into it. In 1809 a canal was dug to the Hudson to drain the Collect and…
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char- tered obligation to supply water to all citizens who wanted it.^^ The company quickly confirmed the worst fears of its critics by abandoning plans to tap the Bronx River and, instead, drilling a well at Reade and Center Streets in a densely pop…
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revenue should be derived. But to the poor, and those who would be content to receive it from the hydrants at the corners and on the sidewalks, it should be as free as air, as a means of cleanliness, nourishment and health. In the hands of any other …
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Canal Street. Between 1820 and 1850, the population density had intensified from 157 persons per block to 272 per block (those figures would pale compared to the terrible overcrowding of the late 19th centu- ry), and those people were using the same …
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Progress (New York: The A. S. Barnes Co., 1896 [1877]), p.747. 20. Francis, p.70. 21. Greene, pp.185-7. 22. Rosenwaike, p.37; Duffy, Appendix I. 23. Oliver E. Allen, New York, New York: A History of the World's Most Exhilarating and Challenging City …
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but successive drilling was less promising. Finally when mineral water was brought up from one of the wells, the Disbrow scheme went the way of all the others. By then, at the end of the 1820s, the City's fire department was adding its support to the…
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the Legislature's height requirement. The huge stone structure was a major contributor to the enormous jump in the final cost of the Aqueduct to $9.5 million. When Douglass took over as chief engineer of the Croton project in June 1835, his first tas…
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system. Another was the nearly 40-mile-long tunnel needed to carry the Croton water from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir on Murray Hill, between 5th and 6th Avenues, from 40th Street to 42nd Street (figure 16). Douglass proposed that the tun- n…
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works, a masonry structure with the waterway lined with cast Iron. In suggesting the design for the Sing Sing Aqueduct Bridge, Jervis revealed early in 1837 the approach he would take in plan- ning the building of the other major structures of the Cr…
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the Water Commissioners would have general administrative overview of the project as a "Board of Directors," Douglass divided ten of the remaining eleven "specifica- tions" between the responsibilities of the Engineering Department and the particular…
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a day. During the winter months when most construction activities ceased, Jervis, ever mindful of economy, reduced the size of the staff in each division. The organization of the Engineering Department that was used on the Croton Aqueduct served as a…
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Manhattan. The system was designed for a population of 450,000 people using 20 gallons per day, which would give the requirement of 9 million gallons to be delivered by the Aqueduct. It is interesting to note that this appeared to be perfectly adequa…
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the aqueduct from the Croton river to the north bank of the Harlem River 33 miles, and determined the grade of the aqueduct at about 13' /4 inches to the mile. It was, in the main, well located. In regard to plans of work, he proposed a cross section…
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designing a new dam with a much larg- er spillway capable of taking a larger quantity of flood water, Jervis was forced to build the Dam, in part, on a gravel bottom since the rock ledge did not extend across the river valley. Even though Jervis desi…
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gates. Aqueduct bridges Where major water courses crossed the line of the Aqueduct it was necessary to build something larger than a culvert, and Jervis was forced to consider aqueduct bridges along the length of the Aqueduct between the Croton Dam a…
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Bridge at Sing Sing (plan and elevation), c. 1837-39, watercolor and ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY, drawing #317. Photo: G. R. Farley figure 28. below left: Elevation of a Higli Bridge for Crossing Hariaem [sic] River, c.1839-…