History
Henry Hilton and Woodlawn: Power, Ambition, and a Gilded Age Fall
Photo of Alexander T. Stewart provided by The Saratoga County History Center. Photo of Henry Hilton provided by The Saratoga County History Center. Michael Murray is a 4th generation Saratogian ...
BSNB – Ballston Spa’s National Bank
Long before it became a bank, the building on Front Street was simply a house, quietly resting on land once belonging to Johannah Hawkins, a woman whose story lingers only ...
An Early Visitor to Ballston Springs
On Friday, August 30 in 1805, a man called Matthew Prendergast set off on horseback from Sharon, Connecticut. Matthew was about 50 years old, a resident of Amenia in Dutchess ...
Our County’s Earliest Inventions
The United States Patent Commission was created on April 10, 1790 to establish a formal method for submitting and indexing patents. Its first three members were Secretary of State Thomas ...
History of Saratoga
Saratoga: super bowl of chips Saratoga Springs has improved the American historical cultural canon through the years, especially in the area of food, which might be something to consider as ...
History of Saratoga
Somebody’s Out There! Growing up in Greenfield Bowman’s Store 1952 Bowman’s Store. That is what everyone called the place where I spent my childhood. A little gas station and general ...
Freedom for Samuel Rumples
In September of 1876, a group of men led by a reporter from a Saratoga newspaper, visited the Saratoga County Poor House in Ballston Spa. Their purpose was to meet ...
The Legendary “Mrs. Cats”
On a cold December night in 1906, when the Champlain Canal still bisected the village of Mechanicville, a 61-year-old woman living alone in a second-floor apartment on Canal Street heard ...
Henry Knox’s Holiday Stay in Saratoga
Knox recreated artillery sled. Photo provided by Saratoga County History Center Two hundred and fifty years ago, a 25-year-old bookseller from Boston was a guest in Stillwater on Christmas Eve. His ...
Ballston’s Colonial Inn
There it is, sitting atop a hill, a hill known 200 years ago as Courthouse Hill, on present-day Middleline Road. It is north of the Middleline Road/Charlton Road intersection where ...
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