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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 :
the end of this pipe is turned upwards…
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…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Others were stationed near the reservoirs or
castella, or in the neighborhood of the public shows,
to supply water to any point where
it
might be more particularly needed. Their maintenance was paid by the public, by a
rate on…
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…
croton_waterworks_raw.txt
…The Croton Waterworks Website The Croton Waterworks website has served as a repository for historical research focused on system functionality, typologies, and individual structures. The website also functions as a point through which the public can access our group mission…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] concluded 47 years of continuous work in northeastern archeology. It seems impossible, within the space allotted here, to do justice to this long and extremely productive career. It is hoped that the reader will at least be able…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…In 1811 the city councils appointed a committee to devise means for procuring a more perfect supply than those in use afforded ;
and shortly after, two steam engines and pumps were established at Fairmount, another
point of the Schuylkill,
about…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…These bridges and the adjacent work form
a very interesting point on the line of Aqueduct. Plate XII. is a view of the Aqueduct at this place : at the
left of the picture may be seen the bridge over the…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] It is with these two sites, Onoville Bridge and Kinzua, that Witchs Walk shares the greatest similarity. The settlement location of each site is duplicated at the others, except for minor variation. All three sites are located on…
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 great distributing reservoir of the Croton water, upon Murray
Hill, between Fortieth and Forty-second Streets, and Fifth and Sixth
Avenues, challenges our attention and admiration. Up to and beyond
this point the Fifth Avenue -- the street of magnificent…
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 first point
of interest is High Bridge, now within the corporate
limits of New York, winch carries the waters of the
Croton Reservoir across the valley of tiic Harlem
River at an elevation of one hundred feet, and is…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
On the latter point particularly he states, that the Curule .ZEdiles were
required to select two persons in each street from those who inhabited it, or owned property
in it, who should determine where the public fountain, or hydrant should…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…White, might be constructed, of five feet
diameter, for $31,174 per mile, making the whole cost, from the point where the water
was taken from the Bronx to Macomb's dam, $400,000. Independently of superior
cheapness, as compared…
comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt
…This area was to be preserved and enhanced as the focal point of Croton-on-Hudson identity, characterized by commercial and office uses, municipal facilities, and higher density residential structures. In its emphasis on the core, the Master Plan sought…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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…This confirms the chronology for the Croton River mouth area placed by us before this conference last year, whereby our Parham Ridge site, a manifestation of our Q or quartzite tradition, with its steatite and no ceramics, dates from the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…That of the West Point Foundry Association being found a shade lower than the others,
a contract was passed with them, with adequate personal security on their part for the due
fulfilment of their undertaking.
The Commissioners also let out…
croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt
…In addition to leachate collection from the Croton Point and Railroad I Landfills, the system also collects and conveys sewage from several sanitary lines connected into the system throughout the park and the Metro North railroad yards. The pump stations…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the latter point particularly he states, that the Curule .ZEdiles were
required to select two persons in each street from those who inhabited it, or owned property
in it, who should determine where the public fountain, or hydrant should…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…highest point on the
Ohio, to St. Charles on the Missouri, and far up the Upper Mississippi and Missouri, the
more the country is explored and peopled, and the more its surface is penetrated, not
only are there more mounds…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…The swelling shoulder of Point-no-Point is
below, and, still more to the south, the venerable
figure of High Taur. Croton and Sing Sing lie opposite,
and;' northward, the buttressed gates of the Highlands. There is a legend of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…preserving the peace, health, comfort and morals
of the community and are of no greater importance in a public point of view, than a
;
copious supply of pure and wholesome water, an element admitted on all hands to be as…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the
force of the fall, by its action on a body of water, there has been constructed, at a point
300 feet below the main dam, a secondary dam of timber and stone, which is 200 feet long
and 9…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…At this point a gate chamber is constructed, with one set of gates to pass the water
into the northern division, and another set to pass it into a continued conduit of masonry,
constructed within the embankment of the reservoir…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] "While we cannot demonstrate the emergence of the Archaic out of the antecedent Paleo-Indian stage there is good evidence that the delineation of some lines of affinity will be possible in the future…
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] The time span of the Laurentian in southeastern Canada, New York and New England, on present limited C-14 determinations, falls between c. 3300 and 2000 B.C., with the oldest dates to the north, in the Ottawa…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton
River ; etc.
Bolton, in his History of Westchester-county, (original edition, i., 440 ;
second edition, i., 688) Baid General Knyphausen landed on Myers-point,
or Davenport's neck, " ten days previous…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct of Lisbon has been long admired for the excellence of its construction,
and, in point of magnitude, is not inferior to any similar edifice which the ancients have
left us. That part of it situated in the valley…
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.
…of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton
River ; etc.
Bolton, in his History of Westchester-county, (original edition, i., 140 ;
second edition, i., 688) said General Knyphausen landed on Myers point,
or Davenport's neck, "ten days previous…
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 first point
of interest is High Bridge, now within the corporate
limits of New York, winch carries the waters of the
Croton Reservoir across the valley of tiic Harlem
River at an elevation of one hundred feet, and is…
croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt
…Subsequent to this engineering evaluation the Westchester County Department of Public works prepared a report titled, 'Effect of Croton Point Leachate on the Ossining WWTP." Table 2 of this report provides the following actual discharge rates in pounds per day…