…Sackhoes was the site of Peekskill and Senasqua of Croton Point meadow. Kitchawan signified a swift Digitized by Microsoft® Introductory 1 1 and strong current and was the name by which the Croton River was known to the red men…

…That of the West Point Foundry Association being found a shade lower than the others, a contract was passed with them, with adequate personal security on their part for the due fulfilment of their undertaking. The Commissioners also let out…

…Upon application, the owner shall schedule the property for an inspection at which point a fee of seventy-five dollars ($75) per rental unit shall be paid. Report of the Croton Housing Taskforce Page 29 B. Short term rental dwelling…

…At this point a gate chamber is constructed, with one set of gates to pass the water into the northern division, and another set to pass it into a continued conduit of masonry, constructed within the embankment of the reservoir…

…They have, therefore, deemed it their duty to ascertain by actual survey, whether a dam may not be raised at some point nearer the mouth of the river, than that proposed by their report of 1833, from which might be…

…expecting that it would be accepted without a full development, but merely to bring the subject to a tangible point." He then proposes to deliver a sufficient supply of pure water for all present purposes, " in a permanent aqueduct, ot…

…guided portions of our country, breaches of public faith have occurred, injurious to the national character and dangerous to public morals ; but I cannot doubt that each and CROTON AQUEDUCT. 303 every of the defaulting communities which shall steadily and…

…This point is 25 miles from the dam. The wall which supports the Aque- duct over this valley is 40 feet high. From Saw-Mill River the Aqueduct passing through one 27 106 tunnel soon reaches Tibbit's Brook, which…

…To adopt a wooden structure at the most important point, in regard to its magnitude and expense, would certainly be a great departure from all other work on the line of aqueduct ; and to the undersigned it does not appear…

…A rise, or additional head at Fourteenth-street, (as a starting point,) of three feet, would give the necessary head to make the water flow over the surface of the highest streets in the city, and would give an excess…

…Colonel Hammond, of local celebrity, was actively engaged in organising the militia for defence; Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, of the Croton manor of that name, was an active and efficient guard- ian of the east shore of the Tappan Zee…

…The plan for relying on the Croton, admitted to be that which ensured the most abundant supply, was put aside by reason of the great cost of the work, and because the Bronx river presented an adequate resource nearer by…