I've seen films where water is rushing thru tunnels too....and with little holes for trickles as well. How high are these tunnels in Ossining?? The water tunnels I've seen were low...like 3-4 ft high tops.....and the ones in the films were always solid concrete. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Regina Haring" <rmharing@att.net> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure inOssining > The pictures made me think of water tunnels - though my only knowledge of > them is from films! > Regina Haring > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <WOLF6PACK@aol.com> > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:37 PM > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure > inOssining > > >> >> In a message dated 7/8/2007 12:28:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> RickVT@aol.com writes: >> >> Could this have been part of the old Croton Aqueduct? >> >> >> Anyone from Ossining know if this is any where near the Aqueduct? >> >> In T/ Cortlandt near where I had lived there is building next to a spot >> on >> the Aqueduct which I assume is for maintenance. I never thought about >> tunnels >> along it. In that area it is like a long man made steep sided hill >> (above >> ground level), with a flat area on top that is wide enough to be driven >> on. >> >> Judy > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
If you should see a headless Hessian soldier riding through the tunnel on horseback, just let him pass by. He's harmless. On 7/8/07, quillpen1 <quillpen1@optonline.net> wrote: > > I've seen films where water is rushing thru tunnels too....and with little > holes for trickles as well. > > How high are these tunnels in Ossining?? The water tunnels I've seen were > low...like 3-4 ft high tops.....and the ones in the films were always > solid > concrete. > > Maureen > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Regina Haring" <rmharing@att.net> > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:50 PM > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure > inOssining > > > > The pictures made me think of water tunnels - though my only knowledge > of > > them is from films! > > Regina Haring > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <WOLF6PACK@aol.com> > > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:37 PM > > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure > > inOssining > > > > > >> > >> In a message dated 7/8/2007 12:28:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > >> RickVT@aol.com writes: > >> > >> Could this have been part of the old Croton Aqueduct? > >> > >> > >> Anyone from Ossining know if this is any where near the Aqueduct? > >> > >> In T/ Cortlandt near where I had lived there is building next to > a spot > >> on > >> the Aqueduct which I assume is for maintenance. I never thought about > >> tunnels > >> along it. In that area it is like a long man made steep sided hill > >> (above > >> ground level), with a flat area on top that is wide enough to be driven > >> on. > >> > >> Judy > > > > *************************************** > > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > > *************************************** > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dick Hillenbrand - (Please visit any of my websites below...) Upstate New York Genealogy website: http://www.unyg.com blog (NYS) http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ blog (not NYS) http://genemisc.blogspot.com/ member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)
Hi Dick, He would have to be headless and the horse too by the looks of tunnels. LOL. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hillenbrand" <nygenes@gmail.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure inOssining > If you should see a headless Hessian soldier riding through the tunnel on > horseback, just let him pass by. He's harmless. > > > On 7/8/07, quillpen1 <quillpen1@optonline.net> wrote: >> >> I've seen films where water is rushing thru tunnels too....and with >> little >> holes for trickles as well. >> >> How high are these tunnels in Ossining?? The water tunnels I've seen were >> low...like 3-4 ft high tops.....and the ones in the films were always >> solid >> concrete. >> >> Maureen >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Regina Haring" <rmharing@att.net> >> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure >> inOssining >> >> >> > The pictures made me think of water tunnels - though my only knowledge >> of >> > them is from films! >> > Regina Haring >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: <WOLF6PACK@aol.com> >> > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:37 PM >> > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Road repair unearths massive old structure >> > inOssining >> > >> > >> >> >> >> In a message dated 7/8/2007 12:28:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> >> RickVT@aol.com writes: >> >> >> >> Could this have been part of the old Croton Aqueduct? >> >> >> >> >> >> Anyone from Ossining know if this is any where near the Aqueduct? >> >> >> >> In T/ Cortlandt near where I had lived there is building next to >> a spot >> >> on >> >> the Aqueduct which I assume is for maintenance. I never thought about >> >> tunnels >> >> along it. In that area it is like a long man made steep sided hill >> >> (above >> >> ground level), with a flat area on top that is wide enough to be >> >> driven >> >> on. >> >> >> >> Judy >> > >> > *************************************** >> > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> > *************************************** >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Dick Hillenbrand - (Please visit any of my websites below...) > Upstate New York Genealogy > website: http://www.unyg.com > blog (NYS) http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ > blog (not NYS) http://genemisc.blogspot.com/ > member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message