Gilded Age · event 6 of 14

14 October 1842

Croton water reaches the city. The Croton Aqueduct brings fresh water forty-one miles from Westchester into a distributing reservoir on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, where the New York Public Library now stands. It gives the city drinking water and, for the first time, working fire hydrants.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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