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| 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 | |
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
done from a hole drilled into reservoir rock formations to increase the rate and recovery of oil and natural gas. I inverted siphon: A pressure pipeline that carries water downhill, then uphill again in a U-shaped trajectory; The rising liquid at the…
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to 1842, remaining as chief engineer until the completion of the High Bridge in 1848. Section 4: Conclusion was for fighting the fire in storage tanks was frozen solid in the unseasonably cold weather. Q QR (quick response) code: A two-dimensional ba…
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existing interpretation, signage recommendations, and designation status. Appendix Croton Waterworks Structure Guide Structure Guide In assigning our different sign types to Croton sites we took into account the size of the structures and their locat…
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Bridge, this somber stone and brick Romanesque Revival engine house and tower was sited near Shaft 25. Six machines powered by coal, were capable of pumping 14 million gallons a day. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide 179TH STREET HI…
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feet high. The inner wall is covered in paving, while the top and outer wall are sodded. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) BOG BROOK DAM NUMBER 2 1891-1893 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqu…
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Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park embraced the Old Croton Aqueduct in design. Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting …
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Significance(s) Interpretation Sign DOBBS FERRY BARN c 1880s Plate 24-2, Old Croton Aqueduct A maintenance building for the use of the principal superintendent of the aqueduct north of New York City. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current D…
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BRIDGE ENGINEER’S Office c 1840s (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) 17 HIGH BRIDGE TOWER 1872 Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Type Rising 185 feet on a bluff in…
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of the New, discharging the water into the east and western divisions Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign JEROME PARK KEEPER’S HOUSE c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29A-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Designed by F. S. Cook, the Jerome Park Keeper’s House…
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feet above the river bed. The 25 foot span allows free passage along Mill River under the aqueduct. Significance(s) Interpretation Imposing and massive, the Egyptian Revival reservoir contained two collection pools with a capacity of 24 million gallo…
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Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) NORTH GATEHOUSE Plate 32-3, Old Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) Positioned on the northwestern edge of Lake Manahatta and at 72 X 40, the North Gatehouse serves as the inlet feet of th…
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is not as tall and that the polygonal faces have been rounded off. Type Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign Type Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) SAW MILL RIVER BRIDGE 1838-183…
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Current Designation(s) SHAFT NUMBER 11C Plate 23-9, New Croton Aqueduct SHAFT NUMBER 10 Plate 22-15, New Croton Aqueduct Engineers designed Shaft Number 10 to be sunk to a depth of 126 feet. Type Significance(s) Current Designation(s) 34 Interpretati…
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Designation(s) SHAFT NUMBER 25 STEPS AND RETAINING WALL c 1892 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type Marking the point where the New Croton Aqueduct entered Manhattan Island, Shaft Number 25 employed revolutionary engineering in its design. Significance…
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continuation of the Sodom Auxiliary Dam, the overflow weir stretches 500 feet and is 8 feet high. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s) 41 SOUTH YONKERS GATEHOUSE c 1888 Plate 28-XX, New Croton Aqueduc…
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Type Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign A maintenance building allotted to the supervisor of the West Branch Reservoir. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign YONKERS BARN (Demolished) Plate 25, Old Croton Aqueduct Part of t…
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rvA^piV-' CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Digitized by Microsoft® Date Due — ■'-;;: — -APf^= Cornell University Library F 127H8 B12 olin 3 1924 028 853 658 Digitized by Microsoft® This book was digitized by Microsoft Corporation in cooperation witli Corne…
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accepted authorities. Digitized by Microsoft® Contents CHAPTER I — Introductory ..... II — Two Cities on One Site . Ill — New Buildings and Old . IV — 'Festivals and Pageants . V — ^Along the Manhattan Shore VI — On the Jersey Shore ... VII — Early S…
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Landing Undercliff — The Home of the Poet Morris . From, an old print. The River Road, near Coldenham Where the Brooks Met — Idlewild . View South from Sing Sing, about 1848 Croton and Verplanck' s Point and Anthony's Nose from Hill back of Sing Sing…
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repetition of historic statements already more or less familiar to the reader. The voy- age of Henry Hudson, English navigator in the service of the Dutch East India Company, to find a passage through polar seas to the shores of farthest Ind; the hap…
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in their season filled the air with spicy perfume. Yet the forests were not uninhabited, for from every covert, every little cove or bay along the shores, the canoes of the Indians put out to intercept or at least to approach the "yacht" of the voyag…
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of dependent communi- ties. The settlements from New Amsterdam, or Man- hattan, extended northward to Kitchawan, and those of Rensselaerwyk (or Albany) included the more southerly posts of Kingston, Esopus, and Rondout. While it is true that other po…
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receding pine and chestnut; year after year the "herbes" and the simples attended the broader crops; and flowers that bloomed for the delight of the eye and the comfort of the soul lifted their faces within the walls of the home acre. Industry and th…
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which were committed under pretence of coming to put Christians on their guard. Finally, the Indians took the field and attacked the bou- weries at Pavonia. Two ships of war and a privateer were here Digitized by Microsoft® Introductory 17 at the tim…
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ghosts. 19 Digitized by Microsoft® 20 The Hudson River It is the city of the Knickerbockers, where the apo- cryphal burghers that Irving created were supposed to have puffed lazily upon their long pipes till the smoke obscured Communipaw, on the oppo…
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vanishes, his merits are insignificant, beside the "Woman yet alive" of Governor Dongan's report. The Albany fort was described by Dongan as being made of pine trees fifteen feet high, and fitted with batteries, etc., yet all very rotten, and he stro…
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Burnet's observations this fort stands in the latitude of 40° 43' N. The following description, by a foreign writer of that day, gives a vivid picture of the social life of New York when fashion still lingered around the Bowling Green : The first soc…
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the contrary, everything was orderly and. Digitized by Microsoft® 28 The Hudson River to use a phrase unhappily somewhat obsolete, "was conducted with propriety." The British ships hung in the offing and received their barges as they came up; then, w…
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old fort now holds the new Custom House. At the lower end of Broad- way is a group of splendid buildings, among them the Standard Oil, Welles, Bowling Green, Columbia, etc. |vOpposite the Green, at what is now No. i Broadway, was a lot belonging at o…
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the Battery northward multiply. In all that vast collec- tion of iron and masonry there are a few individual masses that are symmetrical, but these are lost in the great aggregation. Separate structures have been shot into the air as though impelled …