…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign 119TH STREET GATEHOUSE 1894-1895 Plate 30-6, Old Croton Aqueduct The existing 119th Street Gatehouse replaced one built in the center of Amsterdam Avenue. Like its predecessor, it provided an outlet for the water…

…It was Major Douglass who determined that a gravity aqueduct could be built from a dam on the Croton River to the north bank of the Harlem River at a constant slope of 13V4 inches per mile. Having set the…

…High Bridge, Aqueduct, and Water Tower, reference number 72001560 1973: Old Croton Dam Site, reference number 73001289 1974: Old Croton Aqueduct, reference number 74001324 1983: 135th Street Gatehouse, reference number 83001721; High Pumping Station (Bronx, NY), reference number 83003882 40…

…The history of the building of Croton Aqueduct reminds us of the value of water, one of the most important rural resources in the 19th century, and the ways it had become an invaluable commodity for urban populations and allied…

…On these criteria the Croton Aqueduct provides an outstanding case study of the factors inherent in the design of any successful, large scale engineering work. The first step was to determine the quantity of water to be deliv- ered at…

miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…

…This having been done, and the dam raised sufficiently to cause the water to flow into the aqueduct, it was admitted to the depth of 18 inches, at 5 o'clock in the morning of the 22d June. A boat…

…The aqueduct proceeds from the Sing Sing tunnel, crossing both the aforesaid street and creek, from north to south. 3d. An archway over the Highland turnpike, now highway, about eleven miles below the Croton dam, of 20 feet span, and…

…Based on White's and Douglass' report, the Water Commissioners recommended to the Common Council a dam of 130-150 feet in height and a reservoir to be built 6 miles from the mouth of the Croton. The Common Council…

…The most prominent objects of labor and cost on the first division arer first, the dam across the Croton River. This dam will be fifty feet high, from the bed of the river, and about forty feet from low water…

…three sections of the Croton Aqueduct, including the dam in the Croton, the aqueduct bridge over Sing Sing Kill, and the necessary exca- vations and tunnelling on the line of about S£ miles from the Croton to Sing Sing village…

…That of laying a tax on the citizens to pay the interest of the water loan. 2d. To limit the power of the Water Commissioners over the aqueduct to its termination at Murray's Hill. 3d. To authorise the Commissioners…

…Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842),

…idea of building a dam across the Hudson. We have now gone over most of the preliminary steps which were taken before deciding upon the source for a supply of water. — Having fixed upon the Croton River as a stream…

…If the river, as low down as the proposeds ite for the dam, will be closed by a CROTON AQUEDUCT. 133 covering of ice for three months in the year, we should think the cutting off so much of the…

…French & Hastie, by means of a boat floating through the aqueduct, between the Croton Dam and Harlem River. Some unimportant defects were discovered inside the aqueduct, a short time before the water was shut off, and two small leaks ap…

…Like the railroad, the construction of the Croton and New Croton Dams and the New Croton Aqueduct played an important role in shaping Croton-on-Hudson’s development. Construction began on the Croton Dam in 1837 after several water crises…

…expense than the proposed object of dam- ming the Hudson. The elevated situation of the Croton will allow the artizan to make it applicable and certain to give a copious supply of water without hazard The plan proposed, he says…

…Engineer of the Old Croton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Jervis, John B. Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir. New York, 1842. Jervis, John B. "Memoir Presented October 18, 1876." Transactions of the American…

…for the aqueduct,) whose aggregate length amounts to CROTON AaUEDUCT. 181 4406 feet, 32 ventilators for the escape of the air from the tunnel, and four waste weirs, for the discharge of the surplus water from the aqueduct. The Harlem…

…and they are hereby instructed not to enter into any contract for the procuring or laying down mains and water pipes in said city south of said line — this duty having already been invested in the Croton Aqueduct Commissioner and…

…aqueduct. - The Croton reservoir, (which has received the name of Croton lake,) covers about 400 acres of land, find is available as a reservoir for 500,000,000 imperial gallons of water, above the level that would allow the aqueduct…

…Tower, View above the Dam, in Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843, engraved by William James Bennett Courtesy The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns (different version in exhibition). Photo: J. Kennedy Contents 6 Foreword Philip Verre, Director 9 Water for…

…Bradford Seymour, of Utica, suggesting the follow- ing plan for supplying the city with water. CROTON AQUEDUCT. 131 Mr. Seymour proposes to erect a permanent dam in the Hudson river, extending from this city, at or near the site of…

…Multitudes came in from the country around, and from sister cities : — all business was laid aside for the pleasing ceremonies of the day, and the Croton water, with the beauty and grandeur of its fountains, met with a welcome which…

…Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842), p.lO. 6. Ibid., p.7. Temperament, temperance and Tolerance An Appraisal of Conflicts Over Land Values and Laborers Along the Line of the…

…Bornet's 1850 lithograph Croton [Distributing] Reservoir (figure 49) focused on the more rural aspects of that part of Manhattan. The Dam, as well, symbolized the technological power of the Aqueduct. In confining the forces of nature, it likely invoked…

…The dam on the Croton River is about 38 feet above the level which was the surface of the natural flow of water at that place, and sets the water back about six miles, forming the Fountain Reservoir which covers…

…Philip Hone, who would be appointed a member of the 1848 Board of Water Commissioners, wrote in his diary: There has been a flare-up amongst the Irish laborers on the Croton Aqueduct occasioned by the contractors reducing their wages…

…The High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, National Register of Historic Places (1972) 6. 135th Street Gatehouse, National Register of Historic Places (1983) 7. The Old Croton Dam Site, National Register of Historic Places (1973) Individual Site Partners Croton Friends…