featured at the top of this panel, drawing parallels to the other two signage types. The content and layout of this panel will be identical for every site that uses the medium-sized signage scheme. The second panel will feature site-specific information, supplemented by photographs and diagrams. The outline of the Croton manhole cover is placed toward the bottom of this sign, with a unique number for each site in the center. These sequential site numbers will emphasize the continuity of the Croton trail, and encourage people to explore other sites along the trail as well. A map with all of the numbered sites will be located on our website, and the Right: Rendering of the medium panels installed on the wall of the 135th Street Gatehouse 79 Section 4: Interpretation Signage Design Guidelines Panel 1: General Croton Waterworks Information Panel 3: Overall Map and Additional Resources Signage Design Guidelines Panel 2: Site-Specific Information Top: Rendering of the proposed blue-painted line running the length of the Old Croton Aqueduct, as well as a temporary QR code sign painted on the sidewalk Facing Page: Rendering of medium-sized sign panels installed on the New Ossining Weir Color Palette for Rural Croton Signage Logo based on Actual Croton Manhole 80 Color Palette for Urban Croton Signage 81 In developing an interpretation plan for the Croton Waterworks, our aim is to provide the public with a means of understanding the system, remnants of which they might walk past—or over— without realizing the Waterworks’ historical significance. Education is an underlying goal of much of our plan, from signage to mobile phone applications, as we view information access to be crucial for lasting preservation. In particular, we have focused on videos and curricular recommendations as tools for sharing the story of the Waterworks with a broad audience. We have introduced a series of brief educational videos, featured on our YouTube channel and website, that familiarize viewers with the history and functionality of the Waterworks. Readily available and easily passed on, this multimedia engagement has already expanded the reach of our work and provides an element of ensured longevity online. We hope to further increase long-term commitment to preservation efforts by encouraging teachers to include the multifaceted history of the Waterworks into their curricula. By exposing students to the need for preserving the system’s structures and stories, we aim to foster among the next generation a consciousness of and respect for the built environment. Sustained awareness created by both the circulation of educational resources such as our videos and the incorporation of the Waterworks’ history within local classrooms will continue to generate attention for the system’s preservation beyond the time constraints of our project. Combining images, audio, and text, the medium of video possesses great potential for conveying large amounts of information in relatively short periods of time. The massive popularity of web-based services such as YouTube confirms video’s status as a favored means of communication, education, and entertainment among a truly global population. The development of user-friendly video-editing software, which comes preinstalled on many consumer-grade computers, as well as the widespread availability of video-capture functions on cell phones and digital cameras, have also contributed to the ubiquity of video. Capitalizing on these conditions in order to advance our interpretive mission, we have begun to develop a series of short videos that focus on various aspects of the Croton Waterworks. In less than four minutes, our first video gives a brief historical introduction to the system, explains some of the difficult nomenclature issues that arise out of the use of the terms “Old” and “New” Croton Aqueducts, and provides a very general technical sense of how the system works. A second video, equally brief, examines the Waterworks from perspectives offered by social, cultural, and labor history. Additional, as-yet-unmade videos could cover myriad topics, such as: —The engineering of the Croton Waterworks —City/state politics and the Croton Waterworks —The impact of the Croton Waterworks on the landscape —The architecture of the Croton Waterworks —A biography of David B. Douglass/John B. Jervis —A profile of the High Bridge (or any other specific iconic structure) 82 —A chronicle of the restoration of a specific structure —The neighborhoods that the Aqueducts pass through, then and now —Past and present attractions and amusements associated with the Waterworks These videos could be accessed directly from YouTube or from our website, and links to them could be sent to other relevant historical or educational organizations, who would hopefully post them to their own websites. For instance, the video dealing with the labor history of the Croton Waterworks could be sent to an organization like the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which might be interested in publicizing the video because of its treatment of nineteenth-century immigrant issues. In such ways, awareness of the Croton Waterworks could