History
Library Seeks to Preserve ‘Stunning’ Collection of WWII Veterans’ Photos
U.S. Army Pfc. Henry A. “Rocky” Marcelle of Mechanicville. Siciliano Photo Collection. Mechanicville Public Library. The National WW II Museum in New Orleans is home to about 250,000 artifacts, including ...
Remembering Daketown School
Photo of Daketown school, Town of Greenfield. Provided by The Saratoga County History Center Mary Carlson is a descendant of several early families of Greenfield that settled in the vicinity ...
First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa – 235 Years Young
Sponsored by Saratoga County History CenterContact Saratoga County History Center at: saratogacohistoryroundtable@gmail.com Ballston Spa First Baptist Church 1837-1896 Eve Kenyon is the Historian of the First Baptist Church. She is ...
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 ...
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