[Newspaper] Richmond Enquirer, October 21, 1842. Published a celebratory ode to the Croton Aqueduct following the water celebration in New York City. The poem praised the engineering feat that brought clean water from the Croton River to Manhattan. The fact that a Virginia newspaper published poetry about a New York water system shows how the Croton Aqueduct captured the national imagination. The aqueduct was a 41-mile gravity-fed system, one of the greatest engineering projects of the era.