=== Upcoming Events ===

We are now considering our schedule of presentations for 2025. If there are any topics that you would particularly like to see us cover, please let us know. Please leave a comment on this post, drop by, give us a call at 914.941.4393, or send us an email at mail@briarcliffhistory.org with your ideas/suggestions. We’ll do our best to incorporate them into our schedule.

The BMSHS is pleased to announce its 2nd presentation of 2025. The topic will be :

BUILDING THE NEW CROTON DAM

By any measure, the New Croton Dam is an engineering marvel. For 14 years (from 1892 to 1906) as many as 1,000 workers used more than 500 pieces of heavy machinery, 745,000 barrels of cement, 100,000 tons of coal and an incalculable quantity of locally quarried stone to build the dam. It is said to be the third largest hand-hewn structure in the world after the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Wall of China. Croton Village Historian Marc Cheshire will describe the construction process and the lasting impact the project had on the village.

The presentation will take place at the Vescio Community Center at 1 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor (i.e. in the library building) on Sunday, March 30, at 2:00pm.