Battlefield,
Ballston,
Bemis Heights,
Benedict's Sulphur Spring,
Chapman's Hill,
Circular Railway,
Columbian Spring,
Cohoes Falls,
Congress Park,
Congress Spring,
Corinth Falls,
Crystal Spring,
Diamond Spring,
Drs. Strongs Turkish Baths,
Ellis Spring,
Empire Spring,
Eureka Spring,
Excelsior Grove,
Excelsior Spring,
Excelsior Lake,
Geyser Spring,
Glass Factory,
Glacier Spring,
Glen Mitchel,
Hagerty Hill,
Hamilton Spring,
Hathorn Spring,
High Rock Spring,
Indian Encampment,
Indian Spring,
Lake Lovely,
Lake Saratoga,
Luzerne,
Marble Works,
Pavilion Spring,
Putnam's Spring,
Race Course,
Red Spring,
Saratoga "A" Spring,
Seltzer Spring,
Star Spring,
Stiles' Hill,
Surrender Ground,
Ten Springs,
Trout Ponds,
United States Spring,
Verd Antique Marble Works,
Washington Spring,
Wagman's Hill,
Water Works,
Wearing Hill,
White Sulphur Springs,
Y.M.C.A. Rooms,
Photographs of the above can be had of Baker & Record.
For the location of these places see map.
No charge is made to visitors for the use of the waters, except a
trifling fee to the "dipper boys," and even this is at the option of
the visitor.
Saratoga as a Watering Place.
The question "where to spend the Summer?" is usually discussed by
paterfamilias, anxious mammas and uneasy children long before the
summer solstice drives them from the pent-up confines of the busy
metropolis to the pure air and quite recreation of country life. Many
will visit the seaside, some will climb the mountains or explore the
forests. Fashion, in most instances, determines the place of resort,
and has fixed on certain localities, or courts of its acknowledged
leaders, where not to have been seen at least is to have been buried
for the season.
One place has held through the many years the highest rank, both from
intrinsic merit, and from an unfluctuating devotion of the fashionable
world, and has been aptly termed "The Queen of American Watering
Places."
The village of Saratoga, where dwells the benign goddess Hygeia, in
the midst of her far-famed waters of life and health, is pleasantly
situated within the heart of a broad stretch of varied table-land, in
the upper part and near the eastern boundary of New York.
The History
Of this fashionable resort embraces a century. The muse of history has
marked the spot with one of her red battleflags, and thus
distinguished her from the herd of new places whose mushroom growth is
like that of the gentility which they harbor.
[Illustration: ROUTES TO LAKE GEORGE.]
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