completed in 1890 and the New Croton Dam, designed to meet the ever-increasing demands for fresh water from New York City, was completed in 1907 after 15 years of construction. Construction of New Croton Dam, 1901 Source: History of…

…the Croton Dam, New Croton Dam, and Croton Aqueduct were constructed to supply New York City water. Irish, Italian, and German immigrants arrived for these construction projects. By 1898 incorporation, the population had reached 1,000. Clifford Harmon, a realtor…

…A prominent American architect who worked as an assistant engineer during the construction of the Old Croton Aqueduct system. receiving reservoir: One of two types of reservoirs utilized in the Croton system; Receiving reservoirs were intermediate reservoirs, located downstream, that…

…An archway over the Highland turnpike, now highway, about eleven miles below the Croton dam, of 20 feet span, and 14 feet in height. 4th. The large culvert on Mill River, requiring an arch of 25 feet span, and 170…

…Old Croton Dam Site, reference number 73001289 1974: Old Croton Aqueduct, reference number 74001324 1983: 135th Street Gatehouse, reference number 83001721; High Pumping Station (Bronx, NY), reference number 83003882 40 National Historic Landmark (National Park Service) 1974, 1992: Old Croton…

…Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Current Designation(s) WEST BRANCH RESERVOIR 1895 Plate 2-, New Croton Aqueduct The West Branch Reservoir was formed by the Carmel Dam. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Type Significance(s…

…idea of building a dam across the Hudson. We have now gone over most of the preliminary steps which were taken before deciding upon the source for a supply of water. — Having fixed upon the Croton River as a stream…

…supply of its own, quite independent of the Croton system--a fact, perhaps, not generally understood. It is dammed at Kensico Station, making a storage reservoir of 250 acres. A similar dam has been thrown across the Byram Eiver, and…

…This crossing is thirty-three miles from the Croton Dam, and about ten miles from the City-Hall. The distance across this valley is about a quarter of a mile, and the surface of the River is 120 feet below…

…PAGE 55 CROTON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 126 Old Post Road North. 126 Old Post Road was built in 1905 in the English Cotswald style. The fieldstone house was built from the same stone used in the construction of the Croton Dam…

…The Gerritsens removed from L^ng Island some time in 170;), and settled near Croton Dam. Captain Wilhelmus Gcrritsen married Letty, the fourth daughter of Charles Teed, and settled near Somers Centre, as it is now called. Here he purchased…

…Spooner (1900)] They marked out a route from Macomb's Dam to the Bronx River, which they declared to be the proper one for the long desired supply, and added: "The Croton cannot be brought in by this route, and…

…In referring to the Croton Lake created by the Dam as the "Fountain Reservoir," Fayette Tower probably used the phrase as a double connotation of the organic water source and the man-made. Natural fountains were an ancient symbol of…

…However, even sites that are that are maintained and easily accessible (such as the New Croton Dam and the North Gatehouse in Central Park) often lack on-site interpretation. Additional sites contain plaques commemorating the construction of a structure, yet…

…After following the course of the Aqueduct down from the Old Croton Dam (replaced at the turn of the century by the New Croton Dam), the author recounts in these pages his guided tour of the South Gatehouse, complete with…

…The house where he was born was wrecked and partially carried away by the breaking of the Croton Dam, January 8, 1841. He is the son of Gilbert Tompkins and Ferlina Griffen. The Tompkinses are of Welsh origin. They came…

…Previous to the erection of the Croton dam, the shad fish annually ascended the river to Whitlocksville a distance of nearly thirty miles from the Hudson; trout are taken here in great abundance.

…Beaver Dam, Broad Brook, David's Brook, Miry Brook, Spruce Brook, one of the boundaries of the Indian deeds, Kisco Brook and Kisco River, near Mount Kisco. The last-named was for its whole length, down to Croton River, the…

…Howe, "The Croton Valley,' Westchester County Historical Society Bulletin, vol. 25 (July 1949) #3, 77-86. 29. French, p.348. 30. Frederick A. Underhill, "The Underhill's Mill on the Croton," Westchester County Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin (July 1943) #*4…

…The following table shows the length of the Aqueduct as it is divided into differ- ent planes of descent, from the gate chamber at the Croton dam to the gate chamber at the Receiving Reservoir on the Island of New…

…7 Vs x 10 Vs inches Courtesy of William Lee Frost Topographical Map Showing the Entire Watershed of Croton Rhrer above the Croton Aquechict Dam, 1858 HandK:olored lithograph; 25^4 x 40 Inches Jervis Public Library, Rome, NY, drawing…

…Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Gift of John…

…Croton Lake, in the southern portion of the town, is artificial, being formed by a dam constructed i mss sui vc > bj Robert EnkiM. V. It. s. 1779. > Dead quoted i.y Bolton, "Hbtoryof w, »i. iir.-i. r Count…

…This bill, which provides for the construction of a dam or dams across the Croton River in order to secure an increased water supply in New York, will submerge much of the valuable landed property in the southern part of…

…Wilhelmus Ger-ii! ritsen, whose patrimonial estate lay near Croton Dam, in and who afterward married Letty, sister of Samuel Vii Teed, was a captain and served during the war. The u J names also of James Ganong and Nathan…

…Seymour, of Utica, suggesting the follow- ing plan for supplying the city with water. CROTON AQUEDUCT. 131 Mr. Seymour proposes to erect a permanent dam in the Hudson river, extending from this city, at or near the site of the…

…only of the building of the Croton Aqueduct but also the beauty of its surroundings and how it complemented them. For example, he not- ed that the clearing of the area around the Dam and the juxtaposi- tion with man…

…Croton, making a distance of forty miles. From Craw- ford's Mills, the route by an undulating course, requiring the construction of two tunnels, one 1,320 yards in length, and the second 1,760 yards, reached Macomb's dam…

…Wright, then Street Commis- sioner of the city, explored a route from Macomb's Dam to the Bronx river, with the expectation of being able to bring the water of that river to the dam, at an elevation of 120…

…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…