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7 unusual facts about Saratoga Springs


Edward Irvin Scott

He was educated at the District School, Juliet Garner's Select School in West Greenfield and Robb's Boys' Academy at Saratoga Springs, New York.

Howard C. Hillegas

In 1901, after returning from traveling abroad, Hillegas worked for the Saratoga Sun in Saratoga Springs, New York as an editor and publisher.

Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area

The Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area includes the Hudson Valley in the U.S. state of New York from Saratoga Springs south almost to New York City.

Mary Foote Henderson

Henderson was educated at Temple Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College), Saratoga Springs and at Ashgrove Seminary, in Albany, finishing at a French school in New York City.

Red Lopez

Either way, Lopez had no intention of surrendering to the authorities so he fled across snow covered mountains on foot to a ranch located near Utah Lake and the present-day town of Saratoga Springs.

Stoddard, New Hampshire

Among the wide variety of glass pieces turned out by the glass houses were Masonic flasks, containers for liquor and patent medicines, and bottles for mineral water bottled in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Williamston, South Carolina

Soon it became known as the "Saratoga of the South", which was a referral to a similar spring in New York.


American Grand National

From 1959 to 1987 it was run at various courses, including the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York (1971), Fair Hill, Maryland (1972–78), Charlottesville, Virginia (1979–87) over varying distances (1960, 1962, 1968 at 3β…› miles and from 1979 to 1987 at 2ΒΌ miles).

Everett Stonequist

He chaired the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority for almost 30 years and was a technical consultant and planner for the city planning board for 19 years.

Funny Cide Stakes

The Funny Cide Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses three-years-old and up bred in New York, approved by the New York State-Bred Registry, and run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Great Camps

Thomas Clark Durant, who had helped to build the Union Pacific railroad, acquired a large tract of central Adirondack land and built a railroad from fashionable Saratoga Springs to North Creek.

John Woods Duke

Returning to the United States, he spent a summer at the Yaddo artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Newton Arvin

In 1939, he became a trustee of Yaddo, the artist's colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he was also a frequent writer in residence.

PearsonWidrig DanceTheater

In 2007-08 they brought "Katrina, Katrina: Love Letters to New Orleans" to Washington DC, New Orleans, Saratoga Springs, and Atlanta.

Saratoga, Nebraska Territory

Beadle named the community after his own hometown of Saratoga, New York because the mineral springs are similar to Saratoga Springs, New York.


see also

Saratoga Springs Public Library

The first library in Saratoga Springs, the Saratoga Athenaeum, was a private subscription library founded in 1885 by a group that included Spencer Trask and Joseph Drexel among others.

William D. Bishop

Bishop carried on his father's railroad enterprises which involved the construction of the Naugatuck and the New York and New Haven Railroads in Connecticut and the railroad between Saratoga Springs and Whitehall in New York.