CORNELIA COTTON----REMEMBERING THE OLD CROTON AQUEDUCT
Manor Scarborough Historical Society will host an upcoming presentation titled, “The Old Croton Aqueduct in Art,” by Cornelia Cotton, who has been collecting prints, maps, and ephemera related to the aqueduct since the 1970s.
The presentation will begin at 2 p.m. April 16 in the Vescio Community Center, 1 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor.
Cotton’s PowerPoint presentation includes a portion of her collection of images inspired by the Old Croton Aqueduct, stretching from Yorktown to City Hall in Manhattan. The aqueduct and Old Croton Dam were built in the 1840s to carry water from Westchester County to New York City. It was in use until around 1965 when it was replaced by the New Croton Aqueduct.
When she first started coming across images of the aqueduct, “not only was I ignorant of it, but so was the general public, and the material I was able to find, nobody wanted.” Cotton said. “The aqueduct was something that had fallen into forgetfulness.”
Cotton added: “It was an amazing thing to people at the time......READ MORE AT Remembering the Old Croton Aqueduct – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill
Manor Scarborough Historical Society will host an upcoming presentation titled, “The Old Croton Aqueduct in Art,” by Cornelia Cotton, who has been collecting prints, maps, and ephemera related to the aqueduct since the 1970s.
The presentation will begin at 2 p.m. April 16 in the Vescio Community Center, 1 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor.
Cotton’s PowerPoint presentation includes a portion of her collection of images inspired by the Old Croton Aqueduct, stretching from Yorktown to City Hall in Manhattan. The aqueduct and Old Croton Dam were built in the 1840s to carry water from Westchester County to New York City. It was in use until around 1965 when it was replaced by the New Croton Aqueduct.
When she first started coming across images of the aqueduct, “not only was I ignorant of it, but so was the general public, and the material I was able to find, nobody wanted.” Cotton said. “The aqueduct was something that had fallen into forgetfulness.”
Cotton added: “It was an amazing thing to people at the time......READ MORE AT Remembering the Old Croton Aqueduct – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill
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