Float-Introduction of Croton Water

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $10.95

Stock #:703030
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Redfield Brothers, Inc.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
The introduction of Croton water into the City of New York in 1842 was marked by a monster celebration. The arrival of the water was indicated by the gushing of a fountain sixty feet high in the former portion of the City Hall Park now occupied by the postoffice.

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