HISTORY & MYSTERIES
This map and graph were published in the May 23, 1908 issue of Scientific American. They show the locations of the different reservoirs within the Croton watershed after the New Croton Dam was completed and their relative elevations. Click the image to enlarge it.
This map is interesting because of what it does and does not show. If your car were to break down in 1950 you wouldn't know from looking at this map that there was a railroad (the arch-enemy of gas companies) running along the shore of the Hudson River. But if you looked carefully at the … Continue reading Esso “Happy Motoring” map, 1950
In 1950 Theodore J. Cornu drew this map of the lower Hudson River as the Lenape saw it, circa 1600. It appeared as a small part of page 3, in issue #1, of his extraordinary hand-drawn, hand-lettered, self-published journal, Hudson Valley Echoes.
These are the Croton and Hudson Highlands sections of Walling's Route Guides. Hudson River . . . Maps and Descriptions by H.F. Walling, published by Taintor Brothers in New York in 1867. The red line snaking up the east side of the river is the route of the Hudson River Railroad—what we know today as Metro-North. The … Continue reading Hudson River Railroad Maps, 1867
This detailed Civil War period map of Croton Point is but a small detail of a magnificent 4 sheet, hand-colored map of the Hudson River, produced by the United States Coast Survey from 1861 to 1865. Kaaterskill Books, which offers fine, rare, and unusual books in a variety of fields, is offering this map for … Continue reading Croton Point, 1865
This map is from the 1924 Report of the Westchester County Park Commission, published during a period in which the Westchester park and parkway system was being greatly expanded. Thanks to the Oechsner Archive for this vintage map.
Details of the Croton area in 1908 from the Atlas of the rural country district north of New York City embracing the entire Westchester County, New York . . . Compiled from maps on file and surveyors notes and data, maps from actual surveys furnished by individual owners & final field observations by our own … Continue reading Croton Area in 1908
Detail of the Croton area from Colton's Map of the County of Westchester. Drawn, Engraved and Published by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. 182 William St. New York. 1886. The entire map is available online at David Rumsey Map Collection.
Detail of the Hudson Highlands from Thomas Jeffreys' magnificent map, The Provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the Province of Quebec. Drawn by Major Holland, Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. Corrected and Improved, from the Original Materials, by Governr. Pownall, Member of Parliament 1776. London. Printed … Continue reading The Hudson Highlands, 1776
Detail of the Croton area from the Travellers' Guide of the Hudson River. Published by H.B. Kirkham, for the Proprietor, and for sale on all the Steamboats, and at the principal Hotels in the United States, 1848. The entire map is available online at David Rumsey Map Collection.
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