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Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…serves as a transfer name adorning streets far from Perth Amboy in CROTON (Hunterdon County). Originally from New York, Croton the City of Union and Roxbury Township. was adopted by residents of a small hamlet west of the county seat…
Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…SENASQUA (Westchester County).Whritenour thinks that Senasqua sounds similar to a Munsee word, *asunaskwal, “stony grass.” Today, Senasqua Park (spelled Senassqua Park in the GNIS database) is a small municipal recreational area owned and managed by the Village of Croton…
Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…This Iroquois name of an land, a landing, and a point in the Ocala National Forest. The name Ohio locale where many Delawares lived adorns a road in the City also graces places in the cities of Jacksonville and Orlando…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…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…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
NYSAA (1974)
…21) stratigraphically situated with Point Peninsula sherds having round rims or platting (Pl. 9, Figs. 5, 6, and Pl. Museum. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Giddings, Edward B., Flora, Donald F., and Olson, Gerald W. 1971 Soil survey of Broome County…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
hudson_river_source_raw.txt
…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…
king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
…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…
Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…The property sluiceways from the dam runs through the nearby hamlet of Purdys was named for Tackapausha, the sachem of Massapequa who served into the Croton River just above the Muscoot Reservoir (see above). his people as their most prominent…
Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…No longer used as a reservoir, Muchattoes Lake is now the focal point of a public housing project built at the locale during the 1970s. MUSCOOT (Putnam and Westchester counties). Whritenour thinks that Moscotah, the earliest recorded form of Muscoot…