…costly enterprise required — a new aqueduct from the Croton River. In 1880, however, the ancient project to obtain a supply from the Bronx watershed and the Rye Ponds was revived, leading to the construction of the so-called Bronx River…

…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…

…above the brook of over one lain-I dred feet. "The Croton Arch" is a very striking feature of our village. The new aqueduct, now in course of construction, will pass subterraneoiisly through the whole length of the eastern border…

…Most of the particulars of the first sivcly, however, on the old aqueduct anil ante-aqueduct in our text arc digested from Mr. cedent conditions) is the " Memoir, etc., of (he King's " Memoir." Croton Aqueduct," compiled by Charles King…

…Moreover, the original calculations of the total probable cost of the aqueduct from the Croton had by this time been found to be ridiculously small, and it began to be realized that the ultimate aggregate would approximate or exceed $10…

…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…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] To which Andre wb OLD LANDRINE HOUSE, taken alter his capture, and where he ■at on the ste| Michael Nolan, who farms, and boards some of the people connected with the construction of the New Croton aqueduct…

…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…

…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…

…to be overflowed." The Aqueduct Bill was passed by the Legislature and hence the action of the town was void. This bill, which provides for the construction of a dam or dams across the Croton River in order to secure…

…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…

…Their first care was to stake out the lake to bo formed by damming the Croton, which it was at first calculated would have an area of 496 acres. But it was nearly two years before construction work was actually…

…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…