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Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA
"Stillwater, a post-village in Stillwater township, Sar atoga co, N.Y., on the W. bank of the Hudson River, and on the Champlain Canal, 23 miles above Albany, and about 14 miles S.E. of Saratoga Springs. It has 5 churches, 2 knitting-mills, and manufactures of paper, lumber, wool, &c. Pop. 737; of the township (which comprises part of Mechanicsville), 3439. At this place General Burgoyne attacked General Gates, September 19, 1777, and was repulsed, with a loss of about 500 men. This was called the Battle of Stillwater. This township was also the scene of another important battle, which occurred October 7, 1777, and resulted in the defeat of General Burgoyne."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
"Stillwater, a post-village in Stillwater township, Sar atoga co, N.Y., on the W. bank of the Hudson River, and on the Champlain Canal, 23 miles above Albany, and about 14 miles S.E. of Saratoga Springs. It has 5 churches, 2 knitting-mills, and manufactures of paper, lumber, wool, &c. Pop. 737; of the township (which comprises part of Mechanicsville), 3439. At this place General Burgoyne attacked General Gates, September 19, 1777, and was repulsed, with a loss of about 500 men. This was called the Battle of Stillwater. This township was also the scene of another important battle, which occurred October 7, 1777, and resulted in the defeat of General Burgoyne."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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Fort Neilson - Fortified Camp of the American Army at Bemis Heights. From here the Army moved to victory of Oct. 7th, 1777.
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1889 panorama print
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Schoonmaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, N.Y.
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Residence of Dr. Hudson, Stillwater, N.Y.
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Hewitt House, Stillwater, N.Y. (1906)
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A Section of the Barge Canal. At Work on the Dwas Kill, Opposite Stillwater, N.Y.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
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Union Free School
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Main Street, 1912
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Main St. Looking North and Showing Post Office, 1912
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Hudson River Looking South
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(Stillwater) In 1709, Peter Schuyler built Fort Ingoldsby in town because of its location on the frontier of the French and Indian Wars.
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Settlers began arriving in Stillwater after 1730.
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General Henry Knox and his troops passed through here in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
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1791 - Stillwater was established as a town in 1791, when Saratoga County was formed.
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In 1816, the hamlet of Stillwater incorporated as a village.
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1867 - Died trying to rescue cow
Sidney Tompkins, a farmer of Stillwater, New York, discovered that one of his cows had a potato lodged in her throat. Mr. Thompkins undertook to... Read MORE...
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1899 - Stillwater
Stiliwater is one of the eastern tier of towns. It is bounded on the north by Saratoga, on the east by the county line, on the south by Halfmoon and... Read MORE...
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1906
Stillwater, a poet-village in Stillwater township (town), Saratoga co., N.Y., on the W. bank of the Hudson River and on the Boston and Maine R., 23... Read MORE...
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February 9, 1934 - The temperature at Stillwater plunged to 52 degrees below zero to establish a record for the state of New York.
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February 9, 1934
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The Stillwater Free Library was established in 1949 by Barbara Alexik and Elizabeth Beiter in the building formerly home to the St.John's Episcopal Church.
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