The Old Croton Aqueduct
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Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780943651255
Author :
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780943651255
Author : Christopher R. Tompkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780738504551
This collection of rare photographs chronicles the construction of one of the largest masonry dams ever built. From the beginnings of the first Croton Dam, completed in 1842, and of the new dam, which was finished in 1907, up to the present day, The Croton Dams and Aqueduct provides a stunning portrait of the entire project and the region that it impacted: New York City and Westchester County. As early as the 1770s, New York considered creating waterworks and even proposed damming area rivers, including the Hudson. With disease and fires blamed on the lack of water, plans were created c. 1830 to dam the Croton River. By 1842, water from the first dam flowed into New York City from Yorktown. Built to provide enough water for "centuries," the first dam was obsolete by the 1880s. Exponential growth from immigration created the demand for more water, and New York built the New Croton Dam. The new dam not only provided clean water for New York's burgeoning population but also spawned a new community of immigrant workers in the once Anglo community of Westchester County.
Author : John Bloomfield Jervis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385130697
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : John Bloomfield Jervis
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Aqueducts
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Author : Gerard T. Koeppel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2001-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691089768
This text examines New York City's struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, it shows how the project developed up to 1842 when the Croton Aqueduct was secured.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : John Bloomfield Jervis
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Fayette Bartholomew Tower
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : T. Schramke
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)
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Author : Fayette Bartholomew Tower
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385113180
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.