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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 ...
Delving into the American Revolution with WMHT
When I decided to attend Skidmore College in April 2021, I had no idea that I was about to step into one of the deepest historical ravines in the country ...
The Ballston Brief: The Law School That Time Misplaced
Long before Ballston Spa was incorporated in 1807, a grand vision rose from its mineral-rich soil: the Sans Souci Hotel. Built in 1803 by Nicholas Low—one of the village’s earliest ...
The Hop City Road Curtiss Farm
Bill Curtiss was born in 1952 at the Benedict Memorial Hospital, the second child of Wm S. Curtiss Jr and Beverly Lane. Bill married his high school sweetheart, Carol Wilson ...
Putnam Place Goat Dairy
Photo provided by Saratoga County History Center. Putman Goat Dairy Cart on Broadway In July of 1940, Harry & Eunice VanAlst Brower & Eunice’s twelve-year-old son Carleton Chadbourne, left their ...
Canallers Were a Rowdy Bunch
Erie Canal Lock 19 at Vischer Ferry Photo provided by The Saratoga County History Roundtable. As we prepare to celebrate the Bicentennial of the opening of the Grand Erie Canal ...
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