…The aqueduct which conveys the water from Croton Lake to New York city, forms a bridge over Saw-mill river at Yonkers. In the county twenty-five streams cross the line of the Croton aqueduct, which are from twelve to…

…Spooner (1900)] The quantity of water at first transmitted through the aqueduct did not exceed 12,000,000 gal-lons daily. The aqueduct was constructed to afford a maximum dis-charge of 72,000,000 United States gallons every twenty…

…S., Residence of 184 Aqueduct Arch at Sing Sing 322 Aqueduct Bridge across the Pocantico 307 Aqueduct Bridge, Youkers 38 Baird, Rev. Charles W., Autograph of 701, 719 Barrett, Joseph, Autograph of 608, 628, 643 Barron, Dr. John C, Residence…

…Complaints about the insufficiency of the old aqueduct began to be expressed as early as 1875, but the city officials were slow to embark upon the necessarily elaborate and costly enterprise required — a new aqueduct from the Croton River. In…

…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…

…The Sing Sing Kill, where it crosses the line of the aqueduct, runs in a deep and narrow gulf, the bottom of which is sixty-three feet below the grade line. The aqueduct bridge, which covers the gulf, is immense.

…In Westchester County twenty-five streams cross theline of the aqueduct, which are from twelve to seventy feet below the grade-line, and from twenty-five to eighty-three feet below the top covering of the aqueduct.

…The earliest religious services of the Roman Cath-olic Church in Yonkers were held among the Cath-olic laborers upon the Croton Aqueduct in 1830-39, by the Rev. James Cummiskey of St. Joseph's Church, New York, a church…

…When it became certain, in 1831, that the water-supply problem was to find its solution in a continuous aqueduct from the Croton — such a continuous aqueduct being practicable in this case because of the Croton's sufficiently lofty elevation…

…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…

…At five o'clock on the morning of the 22d of June, water to the depth of eighteen inches was admitted into the aqueduct from Croton Lake. A boat called the 4k Croton Maid," carrying four persons, was placed in…

…Old Croton Aqueduct, 95,000,000 gallons; Bronx River Conduit, 28,-000,000 gallons; New Croton Aqueduct, 300,000,000 gallons— total, 425^000,000 gallons. With the completion of the works now in their last stages, the supply obtainable…

…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…

…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…

…The Croton Aqueduct traverses the entire length of the town, crossing the Kill-brook, at Sing Sing, by means of a i magnificent granite arch, of eighty-eight feet span, I and at an elevation above the brook of over…

…The cost of building the new reservoir has been estimated at :S7,7!H1,.">$<>, and the aqueduct at $16,664,808. The new reservoir will receive the en-tire, drainage of the Croton water-shed, and thirty-two billion gallons…

…It is the old aqueduct 10 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY which crosses the Harlem River over High Bridge; the new is carried underneath the stream. Iii3|j* South of the Croton River the next Hudson tributary of interest is the…

…The new aqueduct is to start from the present dam, and is to be cylindrical in shape and fourteen feet in diam-eter. The territory drained by the Croton River amounts to three hundred and thirty-eight square miles.

…41)7 Chapter XXIV Genera] History of the County Concluded — From the Revolution to the Completion of the Croton Aqueduct ( 1842) 526 Chapter XXV General History of the County Concluded 573 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY CHAPTER I PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF…

…case less than forty feet below the grade-line, or fifty-three feet below the top covering of the aqueduct. Besides those above five and a half inches. The bottom is an inverted arch; the side walls rise four feet…

…The water is conducted to a gateway located on solid rock to the head of the aqueduct on the YORKTOWN. Kir, southern shore, by a tunnel cut a hundred and eighty feet through rock. The gate-chamber is provided

…CHAPTER XXIY GENERAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY CONTINUED FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE COMPLETION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT (1842) N a previous chapter we have briefly noticed the organiza-tion of the State government of New York on the 20th…

…The course of the Croton Aqueduct, completed in 1842, is also noted. At this date all buildings on the map of 1813 yet remained, except the old mill on the site of Mr. Cbp-cutt's present mahogany-mill, which…

…Farther down, but west of Jones Ave-nue, is " Anderson Park," with its fine brick mansion CROTON AQUEDUCT BRIDGE ACROSS THE POCANTICO. and well-kept grounds. The house was built and, for a time, occupied by the late John Anderson…

…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…

…The next place, called " The Homestead," extend-ing from the Croton Aqueduct on the west to Broad-way on the east, was the residence of the late Henry R. Worthington, and is still occupied by his family. The house was…

…The division line has not been offi-cially defined with accuracy, but is assumed to follow Yonkers Avenue from the Bronx to the Croton aque-duct; thence by the aqueduct to the arches crossing the Saw-Mill River, and down…

…In April, 1837, work was com-menced in constructing the dam across the Croton River about five miles above its mouth, and in build-ing the aqueduct. John B. Jcrvis was chief in-gineer. On the 7th of January, 1841…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] knew him well, which made his election to any public AQUEDUCT BRIDGE OVER SAW-MILL RIVER, AT YONKERS. and city of Yonkers, was born in West Hartford, Conn., on the. 20th of July, 1820, and died in…

…At that time there were only twelve houses west of the Croton Aqueduct. Beekman Avenue being in many places four rods wide, it contained no less than three distinct wagon roads, or tracks, from Broadway to the river. At that…