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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.
In Westchester county
it crosses twenty-five streams, from 12 to 70 feet below the line of grade,
besides numerous small brooks furnished with culverts. After crossing
the Harlem River over the high bridge already described, it passes the
Manhattan…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…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…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…came the dreaded Mohawk, above which towers the mighty Dundenburg, in olden times abounding in game which the Indians hunted for
pleasure and subsistence, which, together with the beautiful valleys of
the Myanos and the Muscoota or Beaver Dam and…
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.
…And just below the ranch house in the creek are still some
rocks that were piled there in the indifferent
but substantial manner of lazy cowboys, to
form a sort of a dam for raising the water level
in the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…Valley, 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…
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.
…It derives its name from
Judge Nathaniel Pendleton, who, about fifty
years ago, made a clearing there, and built a
and grist, and saw-mill at the foot of Eich's
where the lumber dam and sluice, before mentioned, weie…
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.
…This bar is a perpetual
contradiction to the frequent boast, that the navigation of the Hudson is
unobstructed along its entire tide-watercourse. The Overslagh is the
only exception, however.
About four miles below Castleton, is the village of Schodack…
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.
…the
night of the 7th of January, 1841, in consequence of a sudden and
great rise in the water of the Groton, the portion of the dam comprised in the earthen embankment gave way, and the whole country
below was…
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.
remains to tell the tale but the ruins of the coffer dam and the remains of
the pumps, which may be seen almost on* a level with the surface of the
river, at high water.
The true history of the…
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…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…Another mill seems to have
become necessary at this time, for in November 1701, "the town by a
maigor vote doth agree that their corn mill shall be set upon beucr dam
Riuerat the first conueniant place below davids broock…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct proceeds
from the Sing Sing tunnel, crossing both the aforesaid street and creek, from north to
south.
3d. An archway over the Highland turnpike, now highway, about eleven miles
below the Croton dam, of 20 feet span, and…
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.
…About 1700 he dammed Tippet's
Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably
not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill,
which until as recent a date as 1889 (when it came into…
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…At the place where it was determined to build the dam across the Croton River, the surface of the natural flow of water was about 38 feet below the elevation required as a head for the water to flow into…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
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carry the mill throughout the year, which enables it to grind at all seasons.
The course of the Bronx immediately below the mill is said to have
been formerly changed by a large beaver dam, which those industrious…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
At some distance
below this dam and lock, a canal may be led from the river on
the south side, secured with guard gates, and run througli low
lands, and well slieltered along the foot of tlie hills and re…
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.
…The buildings of a large
manufactory of leather skirted one side of the rapids, and at their head
was a large dam and some mills. That region abounded with establishments for making leather, the hemlock-tree, whose bark is used…
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.
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 cannot ever…
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.
…The estimated
value of the various ai-ticles manufactured there at that time, was neai-ly three millions of dollars
per annum.
THE HUDSON. Ill
Below the fall, the water rushes over a rocky bed, in foaming rapids,
between high…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater after the construction of the New Croton Dam in 1905; Now located about thirty feet below the water's surface in the new dam. P Panic…
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.
…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 cannot ever…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…The Great Fire of 1835 and the cholera epidemic of 1832 (a victim of whom is illustrated below) were two of the most catastrophic instances of these periodic phenomena; occurring on the eve of the construction of the Croton system…
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.
…Will this rock-ribbed stream appear,
When posterity shall mingle
Like the gathered waters here.
The waters of the Croton flow from the dam to the distributing reservoir, forty miles and a half, through a covered canal, made of stone…
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.
…Weston, the engineer of the canal companies
of the State, was employed to thoroughly inquire into the matter. Dr. Brown's plan was to dam the Bronx about half a mile below
Williams's Bridge. Calculating, however, that the elevation…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…ALONG THE RIVER BELOW TROY
Troy is the capital of Rensselaer County, the 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…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850.
…the river, from the deep water just above the mouth of
Schohara Creek, and on the north side of the river, until it shall
descend the river as far as to gain height sufficient to enter the
bank below the…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…The course of the Bronx immediately below the mill is said to
have been formerly changed by a large beaver dam, which those
industrious animals had erected near the foot of Mr. Underbill's
garden. Beaver Pond lies directly north…
Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906.
…weir or dam for impounding fish. Such dams or fishing places became boundmarks in some cases. The name was corrupted to Nomin-ack, as the name of a church
and of a fort three or four miles below what is…
Interview with Hopkins, James
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Macdonald, John. Interview with Hopkins, James, c.1767-1859; (1848-11-10). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1685. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
…Mosier's party and the prisoners then escaped to the woods. The Hessians used to say: "Dam me de Rebel!"
Captain Pritchard lay at Roger Lyons, Squire Sam's grand father, on the place now owned by Samuel Wright Carpenter…