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Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] Ritchie, State Archeologist, NYSAAF New York State Museum and Science Service The purpose of this paper is to restate, for greater clarity and emphasis, my current views regarding the major configuration of the Archaic stage in New York…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] Two are located across the Allegheny River from Witchs Walk (Witchs Walk #1, Witchs Walk #2), one is located in Onoville, New York, and one is located across the border at Kinzua, Pennsylvania. A tentative analysis of the…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] In the 1950's the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed to dam the Allegheny River at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to prevent downriver flooding and to control the navigation level of the river. Since the proposed dam would…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It is also weakly represented in southern New England (Ritchie 1969b: 55, 85, 219, 222, 223, 230). In eastern and southern New York, at least, the Orient phase, C-14 dated on Long Island between 1043 B.C…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] 20 THE BULLETIN 1955 Arthur Caswell Parker, The Bulletin, New York State Archeological Association, No. 3, pp. 13, Albany. 1955 The Northern Burial Cult, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Vol. XXV, No. 1, pp. 45-49, Milton, Pa. 1955 The Northeastern…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] This reviewer would certainly agree with this position when it can be shown that these assemblages are distinctive and lack only proper dating. Would we deny the existence of dinosaurs if there were no dates? This has been…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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…This point has been called Satan's Toe. Enraged, the devil gathered a great mass of stones and boulders in the interior of Long Island and hurled them at his enemies across the Sound, leaving the western shore line boulder…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] While there appears to be a gradation in size and depth, a closer examination revealed that there were at least four classes of features using the criteria of size, depth, vertical profile, and contents. Class 1: 15 large…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
…Half Moon Bay is a condominium development along the Hudson River north of Croton Point Park. Development has been divided into five phases. Phases 1 and 2, which added 120 units, were completed in the late 1980s. Phases 3, 4…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] 1-30, Salt Lake City. 1957 Excavations in 1956 on Archaic Sites of Long Island. Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 16, pp. 12-13. Trenton, N.J. 1957 Archaeology: Western Hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
Designation(s) SHAFT NUMBER 25 STEPS AND RETAINING WALL c 1892 Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type Marking the point where the New Croton Aqueduct entered Manhattan Island, Shaft Number 25 employed revolutionary engineering in its design. Significance(s) Interpretation…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It appears that this structure was either divided in half or an addition added at a later date (post mold pattern in 10N10W, 20N10W). Within this structure were ten features, one of which showed evidence of a fire…
housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt
…He also noted the difficulty in determining how many unused lots there are in Croton and made the astute point that changing goals and changing engineering capabilities could quickly change how usable a lot was and what the best use…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] The design motifs a-f, h, j, k, 1, and o are examples of the design motifs on Ontario Oblique pottery which MacNeish defines as ". . , bands of oblique lines either parallel or opposed on the neck and rim…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…From this point south to the Croton River, the manufacture of bricks forms the leading industry. Within these limits are twenty-four brick yards, giving emploj nent to not far from nine hundred men, and manufacturing about one hundred million…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…of the City of Xew York," lying above Verplanck's Point. Thus Stephanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands. In the interior his bounds, both…
croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt
…X:\PROJECTS\WCDEF\190446 - Croton LF Periodic Review Report\2019 PPR Report\2019 PRR rpt 2019-06-14.docx 17 FIGURES X:\PROJECTS\WCDEF\190446 - Croton LF Periodic Review Report\2019 PPR Report\2019 PRR rpt 2019-06-14.docx…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
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…with three Maryland regiments, to that point; and in addition he ordered General Lord Stirling with his brigade "to keep pace with the enemy's left hank and to push up also to Croton Liver should he plainly perceive that…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] concluded 47 years of continuous work in northeastern archeology. It seems impossible, within the space allotted here, to do justice to this long and extremely productive career. It is hoped that the reader will at least be able…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Parks such as Highbridge Park point to the tourism component of the Croton system, reminding us that people would visit parts of the system for pleasure. Fountains Fountains built for the Croton Waterworks could be both functional and symbolic. Some…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…The last dividend was paid in 1849, and the stock of the Croton Turnpike Company was transferred to a non-resident, the gates removed and it became a free road, although still known as the "Turnpike." The last board oV…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It is with these two sites, Onoville Bridge and Kinzua, that Witchs Walk shares the greatest similarity. The settlement location of each site is duplicated at the others, except for minor variation. All three sites are located on…
croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt
…In addition to leachate collection from the Croton Point and Railroad I Landfills, the system also collects and conveys sewage from several sanitary lines connected into the system throughout the park and the Metro North railroad yards. The pump stations…
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)
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…The highest point of the structure is rather more than fifty feet above the natural bed of the Croton. By this elevation, the water is thrown back more than six miles, forming a beautiful lake of several hundred acres, containing…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…They settled at the point afterward known as Teed's Corners. Mr. Horton was the first town clerk of Somers. It was also in this vicinity that Enoch Crosby and Luther Kinnicutt both began their careers as the the secret…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…There are openings, or gates, all along the lines, by which the pipes can at any moment, and at almost any point, be cleaned or repaired, so that no stoppage of any magnitude can possibly ocean The system of water…
Wikipedia
…A commemorative plaque at Croton Point Park marks the treaty site. CONSEQUENCES Approximately 1,600 Indigenous people were killed compared to fewer than 100 Dutch. The Wappinger confederation was shattered. Kieft was recalled but died in a shipwreck. Peter Stuyvesant…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1), being the east town lott from Teller's Point extend-ing all along Croton River, together with the Ferry House and ferry thereunto belonging." " And that all and every of my said four sons, Stephen, Abram…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…Odle Close, of Croton Falls, the present supervisor of the town, is a member of another branch of the Close family, always resident in Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Close resides at Croton Falls in a handsome res-idence beautifully situated on…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
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…With this corner as a new starting-point, Mount Pleasant runs southerly along the Pocantico, River as far as Buckhout's Bridge, and over it. The line then strikes directly westward to the Hudson -River, at the point where the…