…CROTON DAM GATEHOUSE 1892-1906 Plate 18-3, New Croton Aqueduct NEW CROTON GATEHOUSE 1890 Plate 13-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Constructed on the upstream side of the New Croton Dam, the masonry substructure is divided into three water chambers…

…It was also used to measure the water in the aqueduct. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide Type Significance(s) Appendix Type OLD CROTON DAM STABLE (SUBMERGED) Plate 13-, Old Croton Aqueduct Sign Current Designation(s) OSSINING KEEPER’S HOUSE…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) AMAWALK GATEHOUSE 1889-1896 Plate 9-, New Croton Aqueduct Located south of the main dam, the gatehouse receives water from the tower and sends it to the fountain…

…original Croton Dam was built between 1837 and 1842 to serve New York City's water needs. By 1881, after repairs, the Old Croton Reservoir supplied about 90 million US gallons a day via the Old Croton Aqueduct. Growing demand…

…Keepers’ Houses The Old Croton Aqueduct was subdivided into regions, each of which was assigned a 28 Top: New Croton Dam Bottom: 135th Street Gatehouse Pumping Stations Pumping stations were usually constructed adjacent to water towers, as an essential mechanism…

…Aqueduct bridges Where major water courses crossed the line of the Aqueduct it was necessary to build something larger than a culvert, and Jervis was forced to consider aqueduct bridges along the length of the Aqueduct between the Croton Dam…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign CARMEL AUXILIARY DAM GATEHOUSE 1890 Plate 3-, New Croton Aqueduct Located in the center of the Carmel Auxiliary Dam, the gatehouse contains a single water chamber 5 X 17 feet in size. Significance(s) Interpretation…

…water. Current Designation(s) Structure Guide For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Significance(s) Appendix CROTON FALLS DAM 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CROTON FALLS DIVERTING DAM 1911…

…the Croton Reservoir.^ In addition to this description and illustration, Jervis also provid- ed a table delineating the masonry and piping which carried the water over the length of the Aqueduct: The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) SODOM DAM GATEHOUSE 1888-1892 Plate 5-, New Croton Aqueduct Current Designation(s) A 37 X 42 foot stone gatehouse near the center of the Sodom Dam regulates the water in the…

…1906 West Branch Dam and Reservoir completed Henry Ford’s Model-T introduced 1908 1908 Cross River Dam and Reservoir completed 23 Titanic sinks 1912 1914-17 New York City Water Commission shuts down Croton Aqueduct as precaution during World…

…Topographical Map Showing the Entire Watershed of Croton River above the Croton Aqueduct Dam. 1858. hand-colored lithograph Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #148. Photo: G. R. Farley figure 43. above: New Croton Dam under Construction, c.1890, photograph Courtesy…

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

continuation of the Sodom Auxiliary Dam, the overflow weir stretches 500 feet and is 8 feet high. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Current Designation(s) Sign Current Designation(s) 41 SOUTH YONKERS GATEHOUSE c 1888 Plate 28-XX, New Croton Aqueduct…

…O Old Croton Aqueduct: Opened on October 14, 1842, as a forty-one-mile-long aqueduct bringing water to New York City from the Croton River in Westchester County; Became a National Historic Landmark in 1992. Old Croton Aqueduct State…

…The dam requires an expenditure of about one thousand dollars to complete the contract. The bridge across the Croton River, which was made in lieu of the one overflown by the water of the river, and the portion of the…

…The velocity of the water in the Aqueduct has been as- certained to be about one mile and a half an hour when it is 2 feet deep ; this was determined by floating billets of wood from the Croton Dam…

…D dam: A structural barrier that impounds or retains water. Department of Water Works: Superseded the Croton Aqueduct Board in 1870. distributing reservoir: A reservoir from which water is distributed; In the Croton Waterworks system, distributing reservoirs were the final…

…But it was only one of the several structures planned for the Croton water system. Another was the nearly 40-mile-long tunnel needed to carry the Croton water from the Dam to the Distributing Reservoir on Murray Hill, between…

…Even before the dam collapse, Westchester residents and Croton businessmen recognized the competitive economic threat the Aqueduct represented. The 1837 "Memorial To the New York State Legislature" charged New York City with attempting to monopolize the trade and commerce of…

…the present dam. The cost of building the new reservoir has been estimated at :S7,7!H1,.">$<>, and the aqueduct at $16,664,808. The new reservoir will receive the en-tire, drainage of the Croton water-shed, and thirty…

…Tiemann, Croton Aqueduct Distributing Reservoir, 1899 Photograph; 9Vi6 x 67i6 inches The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Abstract of Corporirtlon Ordinances and Rules adopted by the Croton Aqueduct Department, regulating the Use of Water, to wtilch the attention of consumers…

…water supply from Westchester County were commenced, which are still in prog-ress; for although the new Croton Aqueduct was completed in 1891, 1 See Smith's Manual of Westchester County, 95. 614 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the great dam…

Bird's Eye Views of the Croton Aqueduct, 1879-1887 This post examines two historical perspective maps depicting New York City's water infrastructure during a critical period of urban expansion. Will L. Taylor created a four-sheet engraving published…

of the New, discharging the water into the east and western divisions Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign JEROME PARK KEEPER’S HOUSE c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29A-, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Designed by F. S. Cook, the Jerome Park Keeper…

…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…

…The dam required to be raised 40 feet above low CROTON AQUEDUCT. 207 water in the river ; and it was an important object to arrange the plan so as to obtain a rock foundation for the masonry. To effect this…

…The contractors for the new dam in the Croton, for instance, were bound to have it in such an advanced stage by 1st November of this year, as to throw two feet water from the lake into the aqueduct. The…

…There is a small waste gate in the dam of five by six feet, but hardly intended to relieve the river when in flood. The water in part escaped through the aqueduct passing over the gates, and discharging itself, at…

…Just below the southern end of the dam is the pretty stone gate-house, through which the water is admitted to the aqueduct, and started on its mission of useful-ness to the city. A short distance below is the…