…Sign OLD CROTON DAM KEEPER’S HOUSE (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct The dwelling house of the overseer of the Croton Dam. Significance(s) Current Designation(s) OLD CROTON DAM BARN (Submerged) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Current…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) NEW CROTON RESERVOIR 1892-1906 Plate 13-, New Croton Aqueduct Following the contours of the valley, the New Croton Reservoir absorbed Croton Lake and the Old Croton Dam, ultimately achieving a capacity…

…BOYD’S CORNERS DAM 1866-1870 (Demolished 1980s) Plate 1-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Simple in design, the Boyd’s Corners Dam was 670 feet long and 57 feet high. Stretching across the West Branch of the Croton River, the…

distance of about three miles carrying away m its course, Quaker bridge, Holman 's mills, and the old piers of the old Croton bridge.... All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign AMAWALK AUXILLARY DAM 1897 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) Earthen with a length of 400 feet and height of 25 feet, the Amawalk Auxiliary Dam is sited on the west side of…

…Introduction Lake Manahatta (now Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir) constructed (decommissioned 1993) 1898 1903 High Pumping Station completed 1906 1906 Jerome Park Reservoir completed New Croton Dam and Reservoir completed 1906 1906 West Branch Dam and Reservoir completed Henry Ford’s…

…SING SING KILL BRIDGE 1842 Plate 20-8, Old Croton Aqueduct Type SODOM DAM 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign SODOM RESERVOIR 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Vertical…

…Introduction 1911 Additional Putnam County dams completed (Croton Falls Diverting Dam and Reservoir, Croton Falls Hemlock Dam and Reservoir) 1984 1981 135th Street Gatehouse designated a NYC Landmark 1983 135th Street Gatehouse placed on National Register of Historic Places 1965…

…Significance(s) Appendix CROTON FALLS DAM 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CROTON FALLS DIVERTING DAM 1911 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Earthen with a stepped…

…There was little evidence of erosion of the stonework or of the apron dunng all of the years that the Dam functioned. When additional water was needed for New York, a sec- ond Croton Dam was built, which flooded Jervis…

…7th January, 1841, by a great and sudden rise in the water of the Croton, and consequently of the Croton Lake, which carried away the dam for a distance of near 200 feet. It was the part described as an…

…The contractors for the new dam in the Croton, for instance, were bound to have it in such an advanced stage by 1st November of this year, as to throw two feet water from the lake into the aqueduct. The…

continuation of the Sodom Auxiliary Dam, the overflow weir stretches 500 feet and is 8 feet high. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s) 41 SOUTH YONKERS GATEHOUSE c 1888 Plate 28-XX, New Croton Aqueduct…

…The First Division, which embraces the Croton Dam, Croton River, and first 10 177-1000 miles adjoining the same, may be said to be completed. The dam requires an expenditure of about one thousand dollars to complete the contract. The…

…Work was well underway when a freshet struck the Croton River watershed. The dam was breached when the water rose 15 feet above the spillway of the dam. The masonry part was on solid rock and was not dis- turbed…

…Jervis also concurred with the loca- tion of the dam at Garretson's Mill, seven miles upstream from the Croton's junction with the Hudson. He felt that a high dam would create a large reservoir wherein a more complete…

…Tower, View above the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, 1843 Engraved by William James Bennett; 5V2X 10 V2 Inches (Image) Ossining Historical Society Museum Fayette B. Tower, View below the Croton Dam, From Illustrations of the Croton…

…All the bridges below the dam were carried away, and above the dam. Pines Bridge, and we are informed Wood's Bridge also — leaving no crossing over the Croton from its mouth to Golden's bridge ....■^^ The newspaper account provides…

…Topographical Map Showing the Entire Watershed of Croton River above the Croton Aqueduct Dam. 1858. hand-colored lithograph Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #148. Photo: G. R. Farley figure 43. above: New Croton Dam under Construction, c.1890, photograph Courtesy…

…between reservoirs - 2.176 40.562 It is proper to add to the above, the length of the Croton reservoir, which has been formed by the erection of the Croton dam and other work necessary to obtain the water, at…

…He then proposes constructing a dam near the Quaker Bridge, on the Croton river, 45 feet high, which will give an elevation or head of 125 feet above tide of the Hudson ; " from this dam the pipes will rise gradually…

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

…Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park: A linear park that runs from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to the Croton Dam in Croton -on-Hudson. Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater…

…From the Croton Dam the Aqueduct passes along the left side of the valley of the Croton River until at the mouth of this river it reaches the left bank of the Hudson, which it pursues, keep- ing at a…

…The velocity of the water in the Aqueduct has been as- certained to be about one mile and a half an hour when it is 2 feet deep ; this was determined by floating billets of wood from the Croton Dam…

…CROTON DAM. The work on this dam is now so nearly completed, that whenever it is considered safe and proper to do so, the quantity of water sent into the aqueduct may be increased to its full capacity. This massive…

…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…

…Introduction to the Croton Waterworks 10 Studying the Croton Waterworks, New York City’s first water system, in a graduate level studio course in historic preservation at Columbia University, required the widening of our preservation lens. The system is complex…

…Croton Dam. The southern shore of the Croton river at the point where the dam is located, is a gneiss rock ; moderately sloping up the hill from the water's edge, but not appearing to extend far into the river…

…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…