…According to the plan recently adopted, a dam is to be built at Quaker Bridge, about two and a half miles below the present dam, to be about two hundred feet in height above the level of the Hudson River…

…Just below the southern end of the dam is the pretty stone gate-house, through which the water is admitted to the aqueduct, and started on its mission of useful-ness to the city. A short distance below is the…

…This is a fact of much historic interest in view of the present extreme contamina-tion of the waters of the Bronx most of the way below White Plains. But the common council, in spite of its bias in favor…

…About 1700 he dammed Tippet's Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill, which until as recent a date as 1889 (when it came into…

…West of the railroad bridge, on the southern bank of the lake is another large dwelling erected by Fernando Wood, Jr. Bailey's Wire-Mill. — A wire-mill was formerly located on the Croton River below the dam, near the…

…Spooner (1900)] On the 26th of April, 1837, bids were opened " for furnish-ing the materials and completing the construction of twenty-three sections of the Croton Aqueduct, including the dam in the Croton, the aqueduct bridge over Sing Sing…