Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
1895 - Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Springs, a post-village and fashionable summer resort of Saratoga co., N.Y., in a township of its own name, on the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad, at the S. terminus of the Adirondack Railroad, 38 miles N. of Albany, and about 180 miles N. of New York City. Besides being one of the most fashionable summer resorts in the world, Saratoga is visited by many persons for its medicinal advantages. Here are over 20 mineral springs, some of which are of great celebrity, the waters of which, in addition to the local consumption, are bottled in large quantities for exportation. The village contains 2 national banks, churches belonging to the Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Methodists, and Presbyterians, and printing offices which issue 1 daily and 3 weekly news papers. It has numerous hotels, some of great elegance and capable of accommodating more than 1000 guests each. Several of the leading hotels sustain excellent orchestras, and the season is further enlivened by regattas upon Sara toga Lake (4 miles distant), races upon the track of the Saratoga Racing Association, and the numberless elegant "turn-outs" of the visitors. Twelve miles E. of the village, on the Hudson River, is the battle-ground where General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates during the Revolution in 1777. Pop. (1890) 11,975; of township, 13,171

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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