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Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…The point of land which sheltered the Half Moon was known to
the Indians as Senasqua. The rushing river, emptying its fresh waters
into the salty Hudson below Senasqua was named after the chief of
the Kitchawan tribe of Indians…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…A short dam has been constructed
there for sending water through a flume to a mill a few rods below. This stream, like Indian Brook, presents a thousand charming pictures,
where nature woos her lovers in the pleasant sumnjer-time…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
Brown's plan was to dam the Bronx about half a mile below
Williams's Bridge. Calculating, however, that the elevation
the
Bronx at that point was not sufficient to admit of drawing the of
water
to the city by…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…A highway bridge, nine hundred feet in length, and a
railway viaduct still longer, cross the river over the rapids a short distance
below the falls. From tlie former, a fine distant view of the cataract and
the rapids below…
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…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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…dam
from the place selected by our engineer, to a position some miles below it, while he follows the precise line designated by our
report, and adopts the very objectionable plan of carrying the water in a large open canal…
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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…
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…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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…three quarters from the dam. This
River runs through Sleepy Hollow and enters the Hudson
about a mile and a half above Tarrytown. The stream is
72 feet below the bottom of the Aqueduct, and the valley
being of considerable…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
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…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…
Brinton, Willard C. Graphic Presentation. New York: Brinton Associates, 1939. Internet Archive: graphicpresentat00brinrich. Brinton's 526-page magnum opus. Page 162 reproduces his own 1921 postcard map lobbying for the Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway crossing Croton Dam, with a caption crediting the map with helping secure the route's adoption.
…A better position for the figures would be between the
date and the bottom of the bar, or in the form of a data table below the chart.
3. For explanation of index numbers, see 30 1 A
Chapter 13…
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…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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The lowest point in the pipes is 102 feet below the bottom of the water way of the Aqueduct on the north side of
the valley. From Manhattan Valley the Aqueduct passes through a
tunnel, and following its course the…
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…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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Now as the ground in the city of New York, to which water ought to be conveyed to a principal reservoir, is about forty feet above high tide, which is ten feet only below the level of the river Bronx…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
is considered that this is only one of the parts which make
up the whole. From Clendinning Valley the Aqueduct soon reaches the
Receiving Reservoir which is thirty-eight miles from the
Croton Dam. This Reservoir occupies an elevated part…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Livingston's larder and wine-cellar on their
return, and sailed down the river to apply the torcn to Kingston, a few
miles below. )
Opposite Tivoli, in Ulster County, is the pleasant village of Sauger-
172 THE HUDSON.
ties,^-' near…
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…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…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
Carrying a
Peece of ye old Damm with it, and came down with such force
yt had like to Carry both Saw Mill & Corn miU & Dam and all,
for ye Ise being Strong below ye Dam, stopd ye water w…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
by the opening of the fall term. Electric power
is supplied from up the valley, but with the
completion of the huge government project below the Pathfinder dam it is thought that current may be taken in charge by the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…This fact is
mentioned for its singularity, rather than from its being of any importance to the work. The lake, formed by the dam, flows already over some lands not embraced by the deeds
or rights obtained by our predecessors…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
Just below the mouth of Whalen canyon, and about eight miles up the river from
the site of old Fort Laramie, is a diversion
dam of concrete 325 feet long with an extreme height of 35 feet, and from the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…204 MEMOIR OF THE
The general formation of the country is extremely irregular, and unfavorable for the
economical construction of such a work. Commencing at the Croton dam, on a level 40 feet above the river, which descends from
this…
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…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…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Electric power
is supplied from up the valley, but with the
completion of the huge government project below the Pathfinder dam it is thought that current may be taken in charge by the city. The
erection of a $75,000…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…neighborhood, and
on the day of his death he had wandered to the old
mill, and was sitting upon the dam with his pole,
when, by some mischance, he fell from his position to
the rocks below, dying shortly thereafter…