Download or read book The Croton Dams and Aqueduct written by Christopher R. Tompkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Description of the Croton Aqueduct written by John Bloomfield Jervis and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of the Croton Aqueduct written by John Bloomfield Jervis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Download or read book Croton Dams and Aqueduct written by Christopher R. Tompkins and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Old Croton Aqueduct written by and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct written by Fayette Bartholomew Tower and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of the Croton Aqueduct written by John Bloomfield Jervis and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memoir of the Construction Cost and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct written by Charles King and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the Aqueduct Commissioners written by New York (N.Y.). Aqueduct Commission and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DESCRIPTION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT written by JOHN BLOOMFIELD. JERVIS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Water Supply written by New York (N.Y.). Aqueduct Commission and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of the New York Croton Aqueduct in English German and French written by T. Schramke and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct written by Fayette Bartholomew Tower and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... was built, when the receiving one, of such great capacity, is so near at hand ? The reason for building it, was to obtain an efficient head of water near to the densely populated parts of the city, and had the formation of the island been favorable, the Receiving Reservoir would undoubtedly have been located farther down, bringing the store of water more nearly in the centre of the city. Plate XXIV. is an isometrical view of the Distributing Reservoir showing the front on the 5th Avenue and on 42nd street. The pipes which leave the Receiving Reservoir follow along the 5th Avenue until they reach 42nd street, where they turn and enter the Distributing Reservoir at the base of the central pilaster in that street, which in the drawing is shown on the right hand side. The pipes enter at the bottom of the Reservoir and the flow of water is regulated by stopcocks: the door in the pilaster affords an entrance to the vault where these stop-cocks are situated. The Reservoir is divided into two separate divisions by a wall. It is designed to have three pipes, each 3 feet diameter, to lead from the Receiving to the Distributing Reservoir and arrangements are made to discharge water from two of them into one division of the Distributing Reservoir at a time, or the water may be divided into an equal supply for both divisions. On the south side of the Reservoir a pipe of 3 feet diameter leaves each division and they are arranged with branches so as to draw from one or both divisions. The house standing across the division wall is directly over the mouth of the effluent pipes, and is constructed like those at the Receiving Reservoir, with a gate and screen frame of timber. The central pilaster on 40th street has an entrance (like that on 42nd street)...
Download or read book The Catskill Aqueduct and Earlier Water Supplies of the City of New York written by Edward Hagaman Hall and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the Aqueduct Commissioners by the President Containing Reports of the Secretary and of the Chief Engineer Giving a Review of the Work of the Aqueduct Commission to written by New York (N.Y.). Aqueduct Commission and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of the Croton Aqueduct Board of the City of New York July 18 1849 to April 9 1870 written by New York (N.Y.). Croton Aqueduct Board and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earth Dams written by Burr Bassell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
