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Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Ephemera High Bridge (Harlem…
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million US gallons (340,000 m 3 ) a day to the city via the Old Croton Aqueduct . [ 5 ] To meet escalating water needs, the Aqueduct Commission of the City of New York ordered construction of a new Croton system in…
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over the High Bridge at 173rd Street and down the West Side of Manhattan and finally into a Receiving Reservoir located between 79th and 86th streets and Sixth and Seventh Avenues; the site is now the Great Lawn and Turtle…
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Chapel of the Good Shepherd Church of Notre Dame Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Church of St. Mary the Virgin Church of St. Vincent Ferrer Church of Sweden in New York Church of the Ascension, Episcopal Church of the Heavenly…
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The work performed during the winter consisted, principally, of excavation of earth
and rock, in tunnelling, and in quarrying stone, and preparing them for use in the construction of the culverts, bridges, and other erections connected with the
aqueduct, which…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Croton Aqueduct Committee are hereby vested with the powers necessary
for making all contracts in relation to the said department, and for conducting the waterworks, purchasing materials, and distributing the water; provided always, that the
powers of the said…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The pont du Gard is that part of the Aqueduct of Nismes which crosses the deep valley in which runs the Gardon or Gard. This part, considered alone, is one of the
noblest monuments built by the Romans among the…
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…It is 166 feet above mean tide-water at New York, and pours into the aqueduct from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. Three ventilator designs used on the Croton Aqueduct The Croton
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buildings 1 Broadway 1 Hanover Square 1 Wall Street Court 108 Leonard 116 John Street 23 Wall Street 254–260 Canal Street 330 West 42nd Street 361 Broadway 40 Wall Street 48 Wall Street 488 Madison Avenue 49 Chambers 56…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The length of this
Aqueduct bridge would have been three and a quarter miles,
and the height from the lowest part of the valley would have
been 234 feet.
The whole number of arches designed for this bridge
was 685…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The descent of the Aqueduct is 1 foot in 2500 feet, or 2^
feet per mile.
The water which flowed in this Aqueduct formed a deposit upon the sides, of lime, until nearly half the channel was
closed; this deposit…
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This map and graph were published in the May 23, 1908 issue of Scientific American . They show the locations of the different reservoirs within the Croton watershed after the New Croton Dam was completed and their relative elevations. Click the…
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and Trivial Pursuit. Many thanks to Etsy seller paintedpony99 for permission to use the box image. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in…
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the wooden bridge built under the aqueduct arch sometime after 1839. From F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct , New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843. Detail of the wooden bridge that originally carried local traffic under the arch. F…
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] The Receiving Reservoir was a rectangular tank within fortress-like rusticated retaining walls, 1,826 feet (557 m) long and 836 feet (255 m) wide; it held up to 180 million US gallons (680,000 m 3 ) of water. 35…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…In the way, before it reaches the pools, there
is an aqueduct. of brick pipes which receives part of the stream, and carries it
by many
turnings and windings about the mountain to Jerusalem."
Again, in speaking of the environs…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…It has two ranges of arches, one above the other, and
the Aqueduct supported upon the second. These Aqueducts
are in some parts unlike those of Rome, which were formed
on a continuous line for many miles, with a regular…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…These
suggestions would only be useful to provide a supply during
the low stages of the river, for at other seasons the flow of
water in the Croton would be equal to the full capacity of
the Aqueduct*
General Design…
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…Such an experiment would express the surface velocity and would give a greater velocity than it would be proper to attribute to the whole body of water in the Aqueduct ; but the depth of water in the Aqueduct will be…
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…Ancient Aqueduct of Metz. This Aqueduct was built by the Romans when that city was under their dominion ; but it is difficult to fix upon the precise era of its construction. It is said in the history of the city…
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Click on the images to enlarge them. November 1877 ad These two nineteenth century puzzles, showing the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, were part of a set called Sliced Objects, published by E. G. Selchow & Co., circa 1867 to…
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in a box (shown below) along with puzzles of other New York landmarks—the Bethesda Fountain, St. Paul’s Church, the statue of Washington in Union Square—and puzzles for coach, yacht, engine and other words. Selchow was one of…
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…It is 166 feet above mean tide-water at New York, and pours into the aqueduct from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. Three ventilator designs used on the Croton Aqueduct The Croton
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The total capacity of delivery of the aqueduct is about 50 millions of gallons for
24 hours, but in case the lake is being reduced seven feet, by a discharge through the
aqueduct, not more than 35 millions can be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…To adopt a wooden
structure at the most important point, in regard to its magnitude and expense, would
certainly be a great departure from all other work on the line of aqueduct and to the
;
undersigned it does not appear…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Having thus brought our narrative of the progress of the work to its conclusion, it remains to present, as promised, a connected view of the aqueduct, its chief and most
striking constructions, its
general plan, and such other details as…
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.
The aqueduct has tifteen
arches, eight of which are on the river bottom. They
are each eighty feet in width and one hundred feet
high above flood tide. The seven shore arches have
each fifty feet span. To reach the…
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Highland Turnpike Bridge is next and was long-gone by 1884. This bridge was first built circa 1812 as part of the Highland Turnpike, which ran through the Hudson Highlands. Because bridge construction was still primitive in the early 1800s…
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tended to wash out due to severe storms or spring freshets. Indeed, in 1836 the New York Legislature reported that “the bridge over the Croton river upon [the Highland Turnpike] has been entirely carried away.” High Bridge , the covered bridge…