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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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old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
great acclamation from the citizens of New York City. The High Bridge was not completed until 1848. Notes 1. Charles King, A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct (New York, 1843), p.220. 2. See selected bibliography o…
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largely owned, by the tenant farming families who had appeared as a landowner along the line of the Aqueduct, near Indian Brook in Mount Pleasant (today Ossining); Oscar Irving and his uncle Washington Irving had their neighbor George Harvey re-model…
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place [Yonkers] whom I met today, expresses the greatest cordiality and good feeling.^ In general. Douglass boasted "that a better disposed or more rea- sonable set of landholders than those on the line of the Croton Aqueduct is very seldom found. Ve…
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Water Commissioners characterized as "unreasonable demands ... by a portion of the inhabitants of Westchester" stymied the project. By law, engineers could not begin work on any lands not purchased or appraised. Anxious to get the work started and wi…
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century Westchester swallowed whole, as it were, this pre-digested image of the Irish laborer. Occasionally, some day laborers who were bare- ly paid a subsistence wage, in fact fueled the farmers' stereotype- driven intolerance. Gabriel Purdy and Ro…
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bias. West Point-trained resident engi- neer Edmund French wrote to Jervis from Sing Sing, April 25, 1838, figure 37: Irish RIbbonmen, wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1859 Courtesy The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns. Photo: J. Ken…
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been achieved. The out- come was foretold in an article in the New York Sun, June 16, 1837: Being mainly speculators themselves, the Commissioners must have known that landholders are seldom diffident in taking advan- tages of public improvements, to…
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of Westchester, not previously purchased. The meeting of the appraisers was ... fixed and notified for the 23rd of Oct. 1837, at the house of John Bashfbrd, in the village of Yonkers." 14. J. B. Jervis' monthly report to the Water Commissioners, Docu…
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in the growth of the City's population or a chapter in the development of municipal services. The design and construction of the Aqueduct is also noted as one of the remarkable technical accomplishments of 19th-century engineering. The Croton Aqueduc…
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if the City was to "be to this country what London was to England."^ Pre-eminence had dire implications for the neighboring regions. The rural community or region which is the source of this precious natural resource will not only find itself under s…
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the United States and the State of New York." They asked that the act be repealed and that they be left, "as all good citizens should be left, free from any such intrusion or dis- seizin, peaceably to enjoy, retain or dispose of their respective real…
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distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Brid…
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for half a century, until the dam collapse. At high tide, mer- chant schooners and sloops had transported wheat up-river to the Underhill mills and returned loaded with flour for the New York mar- ket. But in 1841, the Underhills gave up the milling …
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focus on New York City. Weidner's family had tieen displaced by the Catskill Aqueduct and, as a result, his work, though it still remains urbarvcentered, shows more concern for these kinds of issues. 2. Edward Wegmann's The Water Supply of The Cityof…
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and urban life.^ At the same time, Americans longed to place the United States in a cultural continuum of noble historical progress, and aqueducts symbolized the achievements of great civi- lizations. Technological progress was avidly desired, yet on…
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classical antiquity. King, a merchant and editor of the Ne-d; York American,^" also used weighty rhetoric to stress American superiority in achieving such a great public work by the vote and fiscal commitment of civic- minded citizens, rather than by…
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in the mid-19th century — revealing the still close connection between the ideals of art and science during this period.^'' In pro- moting a meeting of art and engineering, Tower's text integrates a history of ancient and modern aqueducts and descrip…
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har- nessed water for irrigation purposes. In this vein, the Evening Post remarked appreciatively: This is the most stupendous mass of masonry we have ever seen, or which probably exists in this country .... the walls are strengthened by pilasters on…
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French Barbizon artists, who painted the rural landscape directly from nature. Charles Henry Miller's painterly study of High Bridge (c.1873, Walter and Lucille Rubin, not in exhibition) reflected these sensibilities, emphasizing the rural and pictur…
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entertainment for man and horse may be had. The 'High Bridge' is a place of great resort in pleasant weather for those who love the road and rural scenery." Even closer at hand, the Murray Hill Distributing Reservoir was, at least at first, a wel- co…
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American Art Journal, 23, No. 1 (1991), pp.20-37. Troyon points OUt that despite the general popularity of landscape paintings at this time, It was not until the late 1840s that they started playing a m^or role in the Art-Union's pubiicatlons. 2. Tro…
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O'Brien discusses the cow image, borrowed from the tradition of English land- scape paintings in the pastoral mode, pp.186, 316 (n.72). 23. Private collection, Helen Tower Wilson, along with other related letters. Tower apparently produced his book u…
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Aqueduct. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Taconic Region, 1992. Douglass, David Bates. MSS. The Archives, Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. The Evening Post, New York, O…
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Jervis" (vol. II) Reproduction, courtesy of the Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY Lt. Theophllus Schramke, ProHle of Lower Part of Croton Aqueduct, c.1842 Color lithograph, George Hayward's Lithography, NY; 10 x 38 Vs inches Jervis Public Library, Rome…
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'Ordinary Cutting," "Deep Cutting,' "Section of the Aqueduct on the Inland Route from the Head of the Saw Mill River to the City" Ink on paper; 9^4 x 14 V2 inches Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY, drawing #200 Plan of Supporting the Croton Aqueduct Ac…
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Ink on paper; 9 x 12 inches Mrs. Helen Tower Wilson David B. Douglass, Land Takings Map #41: Land of Justice Dearman, Jewell and Stephen Tompkins, 1836 Ink and watercolor on paper Reproduction, courtesy of Westchester County Archives, Andrew J. Spano…
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and Valentine Property. 1836; Land Takings Map #57: including property of L. Wells, corner Post Road and Tuckahoe Rd., 1836 Ink and watercolor on paper Reproductions, courtesy of Westchester County Archives, Andrew J. Spano, County Clerk Fayette B. T…
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B. Tower, from Sing Sing, to his mother, Mrs. D. T. Tower. Waterville, NY, November 5, 1837 Mrs. Helen Tower Wilson General Improvement and Repairs of work on part of the ... Croton Aqueduct, 1847 Accounting sheets by division, signed by division sup…
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& Amber Ale, No. 59 Christie St. New York, n.d. Colored lithograph; ISVs x 19V8 Inches The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York, 29.100.2951 C. Bachman, New-York (Croton water fountain and view to tip of Manhattan), 1849 Lith…
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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. Helen Tower Wilson William Jam…