…This is a fact of much historic interest in view of the present extreme contamina-tion of the waters of the Bronx most of the way below White Plains. But the common council, in spite of its bias in favor…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that the " old Manhattans " had neglected *' The Mahicanders dwelling below Fort to pay them the tribute due from con-Orange, who slew," etc. — Ibld.^ 184. quered tribes. That no other chieftaincies " The Indians, the Mayekandcrs, who…

…Also known as the Cornell Dam, after the family who owned the farmland where the dam was built, the New Croton Dam replaced the "old" dam, which lies underwater near the Croton Lake Bridge, where the Taconic State Parkway crosses…

…This secondary dam is formed of round timber, brush wood, and gravel ; it may be seen in the picture directly under the bridge which extends across below the main structure. On the upstream side of the masonry of the dam…

…The bottom of the water-way of the Aqueduct at the gate chamber where it enters the Receiving Reservoir, is 7.86 feet below the level of top water line in the Reservoir, thus when the Reservoir is full the…

…The dam requires an expenditure of about one thousand dollars to complete the contract. The bridge across the Croton River, which was made in lieu of the one overflown by the water of the river, and the portion of the…

…The greatest height of the weir of the dam is 40 feet above the low-water level, and 55 feet above the bed of the river. The width of masonry, at low-water line of river, is 61 feet. The…

…Old Croton Aqueduct Residing 105 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct’s grade, Manhattan Valley, two miles south of High Bridge, was traversed by an inverted siphon of cast iron pipes. MIDDLE BRANCH DAM 1874-1878 Plate 4-, New Croton…

dam, an em- bankment of earth is filled in, extending 275 feet from the masonry at the base, and extending from the masonry with a slope of 1 foot in 5 on the top. The whole work about the dam…

…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…

…much below on the other (figure 13). No great varia- tion would have been possible. 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…

…11 COAL WHARF c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type A wharf on the Harlem River below Shaft Number 25 that received coal shipments to power the engines in the pump house and Shaft Number 25. Type Significance…

…About 1700 he dammed Tippet's Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill, which until as recent a date as 1889 (when it came into…

…a bed 40 feet below the Old Croton Aqueduct conduit. 42 Sign Current Designation(s) TITICUS DAM 1890-1895 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct The Titicus Dam stretches 1,519 feet. The masonry portion, including the spillway, is 732 feet…

…The sand and rock within the coffer dam will then be excavated to the proper level of founda- tion of the masonry ; in the progress of which the bottom of the coffer, below the frame, will require to be secured…

…the dam. This stream enters the Hudson River about two miles below Tarrytown. The distance from the mouth of the stream to the line of Aqueduct is only a quarter of a mile. Plate XVI. is a view of the…

…Construction of the Mamanasco Lake Park development began on the banks of the pond in 1957. MOPUS. Mopus is currently the name of an upper tributary of the Titicus River (see below) that straddles the Connecticut–New York state line…

…ley, which is about 35 miles from the Croton dam. This valley is four fifths of a mile wide where the Aqueduct meets it, and the depression is 102 feet below the plane of Aqueduct grade. Here was an opportunity…

…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…

…West of the railroad bridge, on the southern bank of the lake is another large dwelling erected by Fernando Wood, Jr. Bailey's Wire-Mill. — A wire-mill was formerly located on the Croton River below the dam, near the…

…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…

…the arch to a series of brick arches just below the line of the Aqueduct. Thus, any water leaking from the Aqueduct would pass into the void area and exit from the masonry work before it could do any dam…

…dam. Iroquois and River Indians subsequently ceremonially adsylvania North in Part 1 below) shortly after the end of the Revolu- dressed English governors of New York as Corlaer to honor the tionary War. People flooded into and through the area…

…the race is excavated below the overfall of the dam, and of course, room is allowed for a continual passage of four hundred and eighty square feet of water ; these arches are on the north of the race, and the…

…for he only offers to remove the dam from the place selected by our engi- neer, to a position some miles below it, while he follows the precise line designated by our report, and adopts the very objectionable plan of…

…Today, Lahaway Creek is a seven-mile-long stream that rises below the Lahaway Plantation Dam at Switlik Lake in Ocean County. Water passing over the dam’s spillway flows into and through Monmouth County south and west past Lahaway…

…The French called the place Attique and Adiego, spellings that represented the ways they heard the Delawares pronounce Ohio. the eastern end of the Shenango River Lake holding water backed up behind the Shenango River Dam completed in 1955. Gist…

…Moon Haw Road and what local residents call the Moonhaw Hollow (Maltby Hollow on the few maps that name the locale), currently are names of places located in the hamlet of West Shokan (see below). Both the road and the…

…The area’s post office bore the name Ashocan (similar to, but different from Shehawken, see below) for two months before the postmaster acquiring land along the Esopus Creek (see below) in the towns of Hurley and Olive. The 123…

…The lowermost section of the stream below the bridge flows behind a dam built across McGellairds Brook above its confluence swiftly alongside Lower Creek Road to its junction with the with Tepehemus Brook in 1915, YMCA Camp Topanemus in Free…