…and George Nelson, provided the Legislature of that year did not pass a bill which would cause the said bridge to be overflowed." The Aqueduct Bill was passed by the Legislature and hence the action of the town was void…

…The Martin Smith house is now rented and used as the office and headquarters of Brown, Howard & Co., contractors to build an important section of the new Croton Aqueduct. The long iron bars, the kerosene barrels, the fragments of machinery…

…He was a resident during the time ■when the Croton Aqueduct and the Hudson River Railroad were in process of construction. Mr. Con-stant is remembered as a man of agreeable manners, with a charming domestic circle about him, and…

…who, when the decemvirs and sybils indicated the Anio as the stream which the gods preferred for the supply of his aqueduct, still adhered to the cold, pure, and abundant springs from the moun-tains of Tivoli, so Mr. Douglass…

…Spooner (1900)] Jervis, the engineer of the Croton Aqueduct, being em-ployed as chief engineer. Work was begun toward the middle of 1847, the entire line being placed under contract by sections, and the work was prosecuted so diligently that…

…Much trouble was experienced in satisfying the land owners along the line of the proposed aqueduct, who made vexations demands, among them the extraordinary one (expressed in a memorial to the legislature) that the legal possession and use of the…

…The beginning of the gigantic Croton Aqueduct enterprise dates from about the same time as the chartering of the first Westchester County railroad. On November 10, 1832, the joint committee on tire and water of the New York City common…

…They extended from the Andre Brook northward to within thirty rods of where the Croton Aqueduct spans the post road with its arch between Tarrytown and Sing Sing, and from the Hudson River eastward across the Pocantico River, well on…

…In the construction of the aqueduct fifty-five mil-lion bricks were used, and seven hundred thousand cubic yards of stone masonry built. At.istances of a mile hollow circular towers were erected to afford ventilation. The Croton Water-Works…

…No new village was incorporated between 1830 and 1810..This decade is memorable for the projection of the first railway enter-prise in which Westchester County was interested, ami the inception and approximate completion of the grand Croton Aqueduct. The…

…A stone " mansion," probably only one story high, then stood where the Croton Aqueduct meets Main Street, which not only served Moses Ward as a dwelling, but also as a fortress for defense against the Indians. While writing this sketch…

…Spooner (1900)] the legis-lature authorized the construction of the necessary works, and on the 21th of June, 1891, the second aqueduct was finished and turned over to the department of public works of New York City. Since 1888 the…

…The greater population of 1840 was probably due to the inclusion in the census at that time of the numer-ous workmen employed on the Croton Aqueduct. As classified by occupations in 1845, the adult males of the county included…

…The fac-tory takes its name from the large arch of the Croton Aqueduct, which is situated near it. It was started in 1848. It has passed through numerous changes of proprietors and is at present operated by a stock…

…We walked along Main Street on sidewalks of mud or ashes, and near where the Croton Aqueduct crosses this street were rude steps of hoards and pegs. The long and handsome line of stores and neat sidewalks now to be…

…Augistixe's Romax Catholic Church. — During the building of the Croton Aqueduct through Sing Sing religious services were conducted for the laborers, who were mostly Irish Roman Catholics, by a priest. A plot of ground was purchased on the Post…

…The water commissioners shall construct an aqueduct over the Harlem River with arches and piers; the arches in the channel of said river shall he at least eighty feet span, and not less than one hundred feet from the usual…

…Still farther north, toward the old aqueduct arch over the Sing Sing road, was the home of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, from 1848 until March, 18f)2, when he was appointed to take command of the important expedition to Japan…

…Rice at its eastern end, is the high stone viaduct erected to make a way for the old Croton Aqueduct across the Pocantico River. The building of this viaduct is connected with an amusing anecdote concerning the late George Law…

…Spooner (1900)] The public mind shrank from such a tremendous and seemingly fantastic pro-ceeding as the construction of an aqueduct from the far distant Croton; whereas the Bronx, running straight down into the Harlem River, seemed to have been…

…Aside from the building of the railways, there were not many events of local importance in Westchester County from tin-completion of the Croton Aqueduct until 1850. Two new townships were erected — Ossining (1845) and West Farms (1840), and the…

…Ward Carpenter & Son, surveyors and civil engineers, so well known in Westchester County for their painstaking accuracy, with a view to determine what part of the new aqueduct, now in process of construction, lay within the township of Mount Pleasant…

…They made a thorough re-examination of the matter, concluding with the opinion that "the whole [Croton] river can be brought to Murray Hill in a close aqueduct of masonry, at an expense of $4, 250,000, " and that the…

…Aspin-wall, the latter extending well up to where the old Croton Aqueduct crosses the road. But between Broadway and the Hudson River on the west, there is the old Philipse Manor house, with the old mill just across the…