* Philoctetes, due to a sedition, was driven from his city and emigrated to Italy, where he founded the cities of Petilia, Old Crimissa, and Chone, between Croton and Thurii.

His doctrine was adopted and extended by a large following of Pythagoreans who gathered at his school in south Italy in the town of Croton.

Progressive resistance training dates back at least to Ancient Greece, when legend has it that wrestler Milo of Croton trained by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until it was fully grown.

Construction of the Croton Dam and Aqueduct began in 1837 and was completed in 1842.

Milo of Croton ( Greek: Μίλων, Mílōn ; gen .: Μίλωνος, Mílōnos ) was a 6th century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton in southern Italy, who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece.

Milo was defeated ( or tied ) in his attempt at a seventh Olympic title in 516 BCE by a young wrestler from Croton who practiced the technique of akrocheirismos — literally, ' highhandedness ' or wrestling at arm's length — and by doing so, avoided Milo's crushing embrace.

Porphyry says Milo's house at Croton was burned and the Pythagoreans within stoned.

Democedes was a native of Croton and enjoyed a successful career as a physician at Croton, Aegina, Athens, and Samos.

There, he carefully tended both the king and queen and was eventually permitted to revisit Croton but under guard.

Étienne-Maurice Falconet's marble Milo of Croton ( 1754 ) secured his admission to the Académie des beaux-arts, but was later criticized for lack of nobility.

He was influenced by Philolaus of Croton, but he identified the " central fire " with the Sun, and put the other planets in their correct order of distance around the Sun.

Aristotle reported that it was believed Alcman died from a pustulant infestation of lice ( phthiriasis ), but he may have been mistaken for the philosopher Alcmaeon of Croton.

Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton (; ), it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one.

From 588 BCE onwards, Croton produced many generations of victors in the Olympics and the other Panhellenic Games, the most famous of whom was Milo of Croton.

According to Herodotus ( 3. 131 ), the physicians of Croton were considered the foremost among the Greeks, among which Democedes son of Calliphon was the most prominent in the 6th century BCE Accordingly, he traveled around Greece and ended up working in the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos.

Sybaris was the rival of Croton until 510 BCE, when Croton sent an army of one hundred thousand men, commanded by the wrestler Milo, against Sybaris and destroyed it.

When Pyrrhus invaded Italy ( 280-278, 275 BCE ), Croton was still a considerable city, with twelve miles of walls, but after the Pyrrhic War, half the city was deserted ( Livy 24. 3 ).

After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War ( 216 BC ), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years ; it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BCE.

Like Thales, Pythagoras also traveled to Egypt and Babylon, then under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, but settled in Croton, Magna Graecia.

Construction on the bridge was started in 1837, and completed in 1848 as part of the Croton Aqueduct, which carried water from the Croton River to supply the then burgeoning city of New York some to the south.

He then became Commissioner of Croton Aqueduct in New York City.

Please put out your tongue again !/ Now the blister !/ Ay, the blister !/ Let your son, or else his sister ,/ Warm it well, then clap it here, sir ,/ All across from ear to ear, sir ;/ That suffices ,/ When it rises ,/ Snip it, sir, and then your throat on / Rub a little oil of Croton :/ Never mind a little pain !/ Please put out your tongue again!

In Pierre Puget's Milo of Croton ( 1682 ), the work's themes are the loss of strength with age, and the ephemerality of glory as symbolized by an Olympic trophy lying in the dust.

* Web Gallery of Art Depictions of Milo of Croton by Vittoria, Puget, Falconet, and Suvée

Three pickle factories were in operation by the Civil War, and in the 1880s the construction of the Putnam Railroad and New Croton Aqueduct led to a population boom which saw the installation of electric lighting and improved roads.

The Croton River, which runs through the southern part of Yorktown, was dammed by New York City to provide its first major source of clean and reliable water.

During the American Revolution, Yorktown was of strategic importance, with the Pines Bridge crossing guarded by a regiment of Rhode Island troops made up mostly of African Americans who were massacred at the Davenport House in Croton Heights.

In one campaign, in which he was joined by the Lucanians, he devastated the territories of Thurii and Croton in an attempt to defend Locri.

Ossining is bounded to the west by the Hudson River and to the north by the Croton River.

The Greek colonies in southern Italy had been using coins for most of this time, and this technology had also been adopted by a number of other Italian cities, such as Naples, Taranto, Velia, Heraclea, Metapontum, Thurii and Croton, who produced them in large quantities during the 4th century BC to pay for their wars against the inland Italian groups encroaching on their territory.

On the Hudson Line, local trains between Grand Central and Croton – Harmon are powered by third rail.

Famous athletes were honored by a statue erected for their commemoration ( see Milo of Croton ).

The red latex of the Sangre de Grado tree ( Croton lechleri ), native to north-eastern South America, has wound-healing and antioxidant properties, and has been used for centuries by native people.

The neighborhood takes its name from the High Bridge built in 1848 by Irish immigrants to carry Croton Aqueduct water across the Harlem River.

It also deemed the Croton Reservoir bridge strategically important and had it protected by armed guards.

Progressive resistance training dates back at least to Ancient Greece, when legend has it that wrestler Milo of Croton trained by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until it was fully grown.

* ShopRite Supermarkets ( SRS ) ( Headquartered in Edison, New Jersey and wholly owned by the Wakefern cooperative ) – Operates 27 corporately owned-and-operated ShopRites ( including those taken over from Big V Stores ): Hamilton, New Jersey ( two stores ); Montague, New Jersey ; Pennington, New Jersey, South Bordentown, New Jersey, Spotswood, New Jersey, and Trenton, New Jersey ; Bedford Hills, Carmel, Chester, Croton, Ellenville, Fishkill, Hudson, Kingston, Liberty, Middletown ( 2 ), Monroe, Montgomery, Monticello, Scarsdale, White Plains, Newburgh, New Paltz, Peekskill, Thornwood, Vails Gate, Wappengers Falls, Warwick, and Yonkers ( 2 ), New York

Richie Garrett, HRFA's president, was a local grave-digger from Ossining, NY who had grown up along the Croton River, fishing and living by means of this waterbody.

Several tribes, including the Lucani, Bruttii, Messapians, and the Greek cities of Croton and Locri, joined Pyrrhus.

According to Diodorus :" One hundred thousand men of Croton were stationed with three hundred thousand Sybarite troops ranged against them.

Here, the road crosses Wickecheoke Creek before coming to an intersection with County Route 579 ( Croton Road / Easton-Trenton Turnpike ).

* Senasqua Park with extending walkways to Croton Point

In issue # 18 of Green Lantern Corps, there is a battle scene shown at the Croton Dam in which Green Lantern Sodam Yat, infused with the power of Ion, fights against Superboy Prime.

* Croton Falls – a hamlet in the northwest corner of the town with its own Metro-North station

* Purdys – a hamlet south of Croton Falls with its own Metro-North station.

This Idyll and 4 are laid in the neighbourhood of Croton, and we may infer that Theocritus was personally acquainted with Magna Graecia.

Ouleout Creek, which flows into the Susquehanna River, is the main surface water feature along with its tributaries, Handsome Brook and Croton Creek.

Bentham began with the Flora Hongkongensis in 1861, which was the first comprehensive work on any part of the little-known flora of China and Hong Kong, including Hong Kong Croton.

Stops at Albany-Rensselaer ( from New York City ) and Croton – Harmon are made for pickup only toward Schenectady and points west and dropoff only toward New York City, with frequent Empire Service service available between Albany-Rensselaer and New York City.

By this time Rome was familiar with coinage, as it had been introduced to Italy in the Greek colonies of Metapontum, Croton, and Sybaris before 500 BC and Neapolis ca 450 BC.

* Croton alley or Jasper-glazed and unglazed china marbled with blue

On graduating, he took a position as structural engineer with the Erie Railroad and subsequently served as supervisor on the Croton Reservoir, acting as an assistant engineer on the Croton Aqueduct in New York City.

Available exterior colors were P903 " Spruce Green ", P904 " Canyon Red ", P905 " Caribbean Blue ", or P906 " Croton Green ", with P907 " Mist Grey " as a contrast color for the hardtops.

The western uplands of the park have highland dry forest with stands of Olea africana, Croton dichogamus, Brachylaena hutchinsii, and Calodendrum.

In connection with this work the Croton system was taken offline and the reservoir emptied in December, 2008.

Just past it they enter Yorktown, the last town along the Taconic in Westchester County, and split again until they are 1500 feet ( 450 m ) apart, with neighborhoods and houses between them, to the two bridges over New Croton Reservoir, part of the New York City water supply system.

Other EHPA improvements included the replacement of the Hawthorne Circle with an interchange and the construction of the new southbound bridge at Croton Reservoir.

Though the carrying capacity was enlarged in 1861-62 with a larger tube, the bridge, obsolete due to opening of the New Croton Aqueduct, ceased to carry water in 1917.