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Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy of the Library of Congress. This photograph of the New Croton Dam was published in the “Rotogravure Picture Section” of the Sunday, December 14, 1919 issue of the New York Times with the caption: Niagara
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Croton Aqueduct was designed to supply the city of New York with an abundance of pure and wholesome water. It commences about six miles above the mouth of
the Croton river, where a dam has been constructed to elevate…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…This objectionable feature here exists because of the combination of a stone dam and an embankment , while it could not exist in either a continuous stone dam or , on the other hand , a continu- ous embankment and core wall . As…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The First Division, which embraces the Croton Dam, Croton River, and first
10 177-1000 miles adjoining the same, may be said to be completed. The dam requires an
expenditure of about one thousand dollars to complete the contract. The…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Commencing at the south side of the
gate chamber at the Croton dam,
The 1st plane of Aqueduct extends 26099.72 ft. or 4,943 miles, and the descent 2.94 ft. The 2d plane of do. extends 148121.25ft…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…As an example , the Amawalk dam , which forms one of the upper Croton reservoirs , while only about half the height , 85 feet , yet has a base even wider than that of this embankment of unprecedented height . And further , this embankment…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…A channel for the overflow is excavated in the rock back of the wall leading down to the river below the dam . The main stone dam , according to the original plan , was to be 600 feet long , extending from the…
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John Quincy Adams Sends His Regrets
On October 11, 1842, former President John Quincy Adams discovered he had overlooked multiple invitations to serve as a distinguished guest at the Croton Water Celebration. His diary entry documented this oversight: "on turning…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…They have, therefore, deemed it their duty to ascertain
by actual survey, whether a dam may not be raised at some point nearer the mouth of the
river, than that proposed by their report of 1833, from which might be…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
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get a ride out Route 129 past the New Croton Dam to the small airplane landing strip indicated by the plane symbol.) Click the image to enlarge it. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…Thereupon he recommended to the Aqueduct Commissioners that this entire section of the embank- ment and core wall to the gatehouse be removed and the stone dam extended in its place . But while maintaining that the conditions allowed of no…
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what is now called the Old Croton Dam. The Distributing Reservoir was located where the New York Public Library and Bryant Park are today. The fountain in Central Park, which was then under construction. Dollar Weekly , October 22, 1842. ↩ Whitman…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Wright, then Street Commissioner of the city, explored a route from Macomb's Dam to the Bronx river, with the
expectation of being able to bring the water of that river to the dam, at an elevation of
120 feet…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Croton Dam. The southern shore of the Croton river at the point where the dam
but not
is located, is a gneiss rock moderately sloping up the hill from the water's edge,
;
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 road proceeding north from the village descends into the
valley of the Beaver dam, (Cisqua,) watered by a beautiful stream
of the same name, which rises in the adjoining town of Poundridge. In its progress to the Croton the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…in the old Croton aqueduct which passes through this gatehouse . The other two on the northerly side , are to control the flow of water direct from the res- ervoir to the old aqueduct below the dam . These two chambers are…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly 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.
…In 1840, the swollen Croton River
broke away the dam connected with the aqueduct by which New York
city is supplied with water, and swept down into the bay, an enormous
quantity of earth, on which occasion the river, directly…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…the extra depth excavated under the main stone dam , the first ex- tension of 110 feet of the main stone dam , the extension of the main stone dam necessitating the removal of the embankment and core wall and lastly the…