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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…By damming the valley, about three-fourths of a mile below the small pond, so as to back up the water to three feet above the ordinary level of the upper pond, a reservoir of 360 acres will be formed…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
spectator with the belief that it is almost, if not entirely, indestructible by the elements, or time. Between the Croton Dam and the influent gate-house at Harlem River, the line of aqueduct was finished last season, and during the
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hudson_river_source_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
…ALONG THE RIVER BELOW TROY Troy is the capital of Rensselaer County, tne head of tide-water in the Hudson, the site of the State dam and of various manufacturing concerns. It is a busy place and 'owes much of…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
and six feet in depth, to which 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…
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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt — 📕 Full PDF
The river is 42 feet below grade, and to the top of the aqueduct, 56 feet. The two last structures are connected, the aqueduct passing over both of them, in its course to the city These important pieces of workmanship…
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Robert S. Grumet (2014)
The story of the lake began when the City of Brooklyn enlarged the old mill dam on Massapequa Creek to create the Massapequa Reservoir in 1890. A conduit connected the reservoir to the Brooklyn Waterworks pumping station four miles farther…
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Robert S. Grumet (2014)
…Conner Avenue in the nearby City of Noblesville is one of several roads bearing the family’s name in Indiana. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 131 Lake and Kekionga Dam in the City of Fort Wayne, and Kekionga Street in…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…as the Highland Turnpike, nearly eleven miles south of the Old Croton Dam. Type Sign Current Designation(s) Type Current Designation(s) Interpretation Structure Guide Rugged in landscape, the original park wrapped around the High Service Reservoir. At the turn…
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croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…A series of short flights of bluestone steps broken by generous gneiss landings linked the entrance to High Bridge, at the top of the hill, to the road and wharf on the river below. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current…
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