I have seen John Schuyler, the eldest son of the General; for a few minutes I had already conversed with him at Skenectady, and was now with him at Saratoga. […]

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center 1976 summer lineup featured an interesting array of acts. In addition to those fabulous Philadelphians, there was the Third Annual Upstate Jazz Festival, featuring Stan […]

So of course the main point to going to Saratoga in the late 1800s was to take the curative waters from its many mineral springs. As Saratoga Illustrated pointed out […]

In 1876, people went to Saratoga Springs for the waters. (Unlike Nick in “Casablanca,” they were not misinformed.) “Its mineral waters flow in exhaustless abundance from year to year; and, […]

We’ll continue with what “Saratoga Illustrated” had to say about the city of springs in 1876: Saratoga Springs is a village of hotels and dwelling houses. There are few or […]

Saratoga Illustrated, 1876: In approaching Saratoga Springs, over its one railway, either from the north or south, the traveler meets with a surprise. The change from open farms to close-built […]

In 1876: pretty grand. Here’s Congress Hall, just feet from Saratoga’s most celebrated springs. Here’s The United States Hotel. 232 feet fronting Broadway, and 656 feet on Division Street. Here […]

Saratoga Springs became one of America’s great resorts on the basis of its springs, to which the wealthy and the wishful flocked for their alleged restorative powers. Once they flocked […]