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Croton Gorge Park History Date Acquired: 1964 Background: The Old Croton Dam, built to supply New York City with water, was the first large masonry dam in the United States. Completed in 1842, it was the prototype for many municipal water supply dams in the East during the mid-nineteenth century. The city’s needs, however, soon outgrew the Croton Dam water supply. Consequently, work began on the New Croton Dam, also called the Cornell Dam because of its location on land purchased from A.B. Cornell, in 1893. Completed in 1907, the Cornell Dam stands over 200 feet high. The Croton Reservoir has a capacity of about 34 billion gallons of water with a watershed covering 375 miles. In 1964 New York City sold 97.118 acres of land designated as parcel 1 on the map entitled, “County of Westchester Map of Land to be Acquired for County and Public Use and Purpose.. .in the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, June 24, 1963 by Charles H. Sells, Inc., NYC.” (Westchester County Land and Records Map No. 13861). The price was $95,000.
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