miles from the Croton Dam. This valley is 1900 feet across, and the Aqueduct is supported upon a foundation wall of dry stone work having the face laid in mortar, except over three streets where bridges are built, having an…

…However, some structures of the Croton Waterworks, such as the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir and the New Croton Dam, have proven recognizable by this program. http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles Google City Tours Another innovation from Google is Google…

…Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842), p.lO. 6. Ibid., p.7. Temperament, temperance and Tolerance An Appraisal of Conflicts Over Land Values and Laborers Along the Line of the…

…Farley The Old Croton aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Yonkers, New York 1992 Xhi s One 7WXT-: 5F-QFG4 figure 2: Fayette B. Tower, View above the Dam, in Illustrations of the Croton…

…Engineer of the Old Croton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Jervis, John B. Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir. New York, 1842. Jervis, John B. "Memoir Presented October 18, 1876." Transactions of the American…

the New Croton Dam), the author recounts in these pages his guided tour of the South Gatehouse, complete with illustrations of the structure’s now-closed interior. —“Local Intelligence: The New Reservoir,” The New York Times, 30 June 1862, http…

…Elevation of Regulating Gates at Croton Dam, c.1841, watercolor and ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #189 (different version m exhibition) Photo: G. R. Farley Kemp Introduction Having resolved on the work, they carried it forward with…

…The dam on the Croton River is about 38 feet above the level which was the surface of the natural flow of water at that place, and sets the water back about six miles, forming the Fountain Reservoir which covers…

…Based on White's and Douglass' report, the Water Commissioners recommended to the Common Council a dam of 130-150 feet in height and a reservoir to be built 6 miles from the mouth of the Croton. The Common Council…

…up the stream, where there are abundant facilities for such purposes." The total cost of the aqueduct, from the Croton dam to the distributing reservoir inclusive, will be nearly 9,000,000 of dollars, New- York, 27th July, 1842. The…

…Engineer of the Old Croton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Jervis, John B. Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir. New York, 1842. Jervis, John B. "Memoir Presented October 18, 1876." Transactions of the American…

…4.080 The Croton water was taken from the Croton dam, and when perfectly clear was found, as appears by the above analysis to contain 4.998, or about Jive 136 grains of solid matter to the gallon. The Schuylkill…

…The decade of the 1840s, bracketed by the collapse of the first Croton Dam in 1841 and the completion of the Hudson River Railroad in 1851, fixed the suburban nature of the County and solidified the 42 urban-rural nexus…

…7th January, 1841, by a great and sudden rise in the water of the Croton, and consequently of the Croton Lake, which carried away the dam for a distance of near 200 feet. It was the part described as an…

…By rebuilding and raising the dam, a head of 142 feet above tide would be obtained, and no serious obstacles occur in the route before intersecting those laid out for the Croton. But upon guaging the streams of supply, it…

…It was Major Douglass who determined that a gravity aqueduct could be built from a dam on the Croton River to the north bank of the Harlem River at a constant slope of 13V4 inches per mile. Having set the…

…A public informational meeting concerning the remedial program and the Title 3 State Assistance Program was held at the CrOton Village Municipal Building. September, IYYV: A public informational meeting was held at the Croton Village Municipal Building to present the…

…Leaving the valley of the Croton we come out upon the Hudson at the head of the "great waters of the Tappan Zee," beyond which the early inhabitants of New-Amster- dam dared not to voyage without first " settling their…

…Garretson's Mills, he considered under the circumstances, the best position for the dam. By direction of the Commissioners, who were anxious to place some of the work under contract for the opening of the working season, shafts were sunk…

…Jervis, Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir (New York, 1842),

…The demands of the men, however, was 87'/2-100 cents per day ....^^ The contractor refused the raise in pay, causing the laborers to quit in a body, and march in a "tumultuous manner" from the Croton Dam to Sing…

…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…

…The works for the New York City water supply system’s Croton Reser10 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet voir, Dam, and Aqueduct during the early nineteenth century may have more closely associated the word with the imposing Greek and Roman…

…river, at 1, - 3.000 4,000 cubic yards excavation of rock in river, at 5, - 20,000 Coffer Dam. 240,000 feet, board measure, white oak timber, at $35, - - $ 8,400 700,000 feet board measure, white pine timber…

…The original community of Amawalk now lies beneath the waters impounded by the Amawalk Dam built across the Muscoot River (see below) in 1897 as part of New York City’s Croton Reservoir system. Amawalk was

…below) and Coshocton (see in Ohio in Part 2 below) CROTON (Bronx, Putnam, and Westchester counties). The name COPIAGUE (Suffolk County). Whritenour thinks that Copiague Croton first appeared in New York provincial records as a stream sounds like a pidgin…

…On the other side of the ban- ner the Queen of Cities, represented by a female wearing a crown, is calling attention to a picture, a view of the dam on the Croton River — the origin of the aqueduct. On…

…The Kensico Reservoir and Dam bear a recognizably respelled nineteenth-century resurrection of the name of a prominent seventeenth-century Indian culture-broker who put his mark next to a name spelled Cockinsecko on a deed to land dam. KATONAH…

…The original community of Amawalk now lies beneath the waters impounded by the Amawalk Dam built across the Muscoot River (see below) in 1897 as part of New York City’s Croton Reservoir system. Amawalk was probably the location of…

…These were considered as fair averages of what may be depended on — though at times the Croton rolls to the Hudson several hundred million gallons daily. But over and above the running supply, the Croton lake created by the dam…