Westchester County, New York
Old Croton Aqueduct — Sleepy Hollow to Dobbs Ferry
Walk six miles on top of the buried water system that helped make modern New York possible. This guide follows the Old Croton Aqueduct through Tarrytown, Irvington and Dobbs Ferry, using ventilators, estate crossings, Villa Lewaro and the Keeper's House to explain gravity engineering, immigrant labor, metropolitan growth and the strange afterlife of a utility corridor as public parkland.
Stories in Old Croton Aqueduct — Sleepy Hollow to Dobbs Ferry
- The Invisible Machine: Walking on New York’s Water Supply
- Ventilators: Why a Water Tunnel Needed to Breathe
- When a Nineteenth-Century Aqueduct Meets a Twentieth-Century Highway
- Lyndhurst: A Public Water Line Through Private Wealth
- The Aqueduct and Millionaires’ Row
- Villa Lewaro: Madam C. J. Walker Builds Beside the Aqueduct
- Irvington: The Aqueduct Disappears into Everyday Streets
- Estate Walls and Utility Rights: Who Owns a Linear Landscape?
- The System Outgrows Itself
- Keeper’s House: Infrastructure Needs People