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Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] In the 1950's the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed to dam the Allegheny River at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to prevent downriver flooding and to control the navigation level of the river. Since the proposed dam would…
croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt
…PBC-1248 PCB-1254 PCB-1260 Croton Point Sanitary Landfill Railroad 1 Landfill, NYSDEC Site #360001 Post Closure Monitoring and Sampling Report, Table 4a: Leachate (Pump Station) County Daily Wastewater DL/LOQ Units Limits (Avg.) Pump Station #2 Pump Station…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…Here the temperature of the whole body of water is brought down to
the freezing point, and in freezing the ice adheres to the sides and bottom of the
stream. What a beautiful provision is this, that the coldest water…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…The pipes leave the Reservoir at the base of this pilaster
and from 40th street, curve into the 5th Avenue, which they
pursue until they reach a convenient point for diverging to
the densely populated parts of the city. This…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…Here the temperature of the whole body of water is brought down to
the freezing point, and in freezing the ice adheres to the sides and bottom of the
stream. What a beautiful provision is this, that the coldest water…
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.
…On the southeast is to be seen Croton Point, with Irvington in the distance; while
far beyond looms up Dobb's Ferry, with Paulding Castle rising
above it.
On the south is plainly visible the Clove, High Tarn, Haverstraw Bay…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It is also weakly represented in southern New England (Ritchie 1969b: 55, 85, 219, 222, 223, 230). In eastern and southern New York, at least, the Orient phase, C-14 dated on Long Island between 1043 B.C…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] 20 THE BULLETIN 1955 Arthur Caswell Parker, The Bulletin, New York State Archeological Association, No. 3, pp. 13, Albany. 1955 The Northern Burial Cult, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Vol. XXV, No. 1, pp. 45-49, Milton, Pa. 1955 The Northeastern…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] This reviewer would certainly agree with this position when it can be shown that these assemblages are distinctive and lack only proper dating. Would we deny the existence of dinosaurs if there were no dates? This has been…
croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt
…X:\PROJECTS\WCDEF\190446 - Croton LF Periodic Review Report\2019 PPR Report\2019 PRR rpt 2019-06-14.docx 17 FIGURES X:\PROJECTS\WCDEF\190446 - Croton LF Periodic Review Report\2019 PPR Report\2019 PRR rpt 2019-06-14.docx…
housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt
…He also noted the difficulty in determining how many unused lots there are in Croton and made the astute point that changing goals and changing engineering capabilities could quickly change how usable a lot was and what the best use…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
Four of the world’s aqueducts already join this venerable list of sites, and we believe that the Croton Waterworks matches those other sites in national- and worldwidelevel historical, engineering, architectural, and cultural value. While this designation also does not…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
…Looking south along Hudson River, from Village waterfront property PAGE 21 CROTON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Table 3.1: Croton-on-Hudson Open Space Acreage Type of open space Acres Village parks and public spaces 54.5 County parks (Croton Point Park…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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…This point has been called Satan's Toe. Enraged, the devil gathered a great mass of stones and boulders in the interior of Long Island and hurled them at his enemies across the Sound, leaving the western shore line boulder…
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.
…It is 297 feet high from the deepest point of the foundation , which is 131 feet below the bed of the river . Its greatest width at the base is 206 feet and the width at the top is 20 feet…
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.
…It is 297 feet high from the deepest point of the foundation , which is 131 feet below the bed of the river . Its greatest width at the base is 206 feet and the width at the top is 20 feet…
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.
…It is 297 feet high from the deepest point of the foundation , which is 131 feet below the bed of the river . Its greatest width at the base is 206 feet and the width at the top is 20 feet…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] While there appears to be a gradation in size and depth, a closer examination revealed that there were at least four classes of features using the criteria of size, depth, vertical profile, and contents. Class 1: 15 large…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…s Point," and ceased to make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere. 6
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have dropped down the river, still further,' probably
to the mouth of the Croton-river…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…those who are obliged to drink hard water always, and often
to wash in it." Such authority on this point we presume will not be disputed. Health, however, is no less promoted by the internal, than by the external use…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The point at which the
work was to commence is fifty feet above tide, and the City Hall was the old building in
Wall-street. He also says :
"When I first interested myself on this subject, I was in hopes…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] 1-30, Salt Lake City. 1957 Excavations in 1956 on Archaic Sites of Long Island. Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 16, pp. 12-13. Trenton, N.J. 1957 Archaeology: Western Hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year…
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 that bay, under the she]ter of Croton Point, Hendrick Hudson
anchored the Half-Moon, on the evening of the first of October, 1609;!
and such a resort were these waters for canvas-back ducks, and other
water-fowl…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It appears that this structure was either divided in half or an addition added at a later date (post mold pattern in 10N10W, 20N10W). Within this structure were ten features, one of which showed evidence of a fire…
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.
…s Point," and ceased to make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere.*
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have drop[)ed down the river, still further," probably
to the mouth of the Croton-ri…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…is a view taken from a point below the dam
and shows the relative positions of the dam and the gate
chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The original channel of the River where the dam is built,
;
was…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…At the bottom or lowest point in this pipe, a branch
pipe of 1 foot diameter has been connected, extending a
distance of 80 feet from it at right angles and horizontally :
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] The design motifs a-f, h, j, k, 1, and o are examples of the design motifs on Ontario Oblique pottery which MacNeish defines as ". . , bands of oblique lines either parallel or opposed on the neck and rim…
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.
Half a mile east of the village of Croton occurs a
small area without distinguishable features, and south
of the Croton River a narrow area extends from near
" Quaker Bridge " to the forcation of the river at
Huntersville. At Merritt…
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. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…The highest point of the structure is rather more than fifty feet
above the natural bed of the Croton. By this elevation, the water is
thrown back more than six miles, forming a beautiful lake of several
hundred acres, containing…