Historical Markers in Saratoga County, New York
(Hadley Mountain) Fire Tower
. . . their cannon shot . . . reaching every part of our camp
1755
1772 House
1780 Invasion
225th Anniversary Battles of Saratoga
A Good Place to Set Up Camp
A Plow Factory
Address by President Lincoln
American Encampment and General Headquarters
American River Defense
American River Fortifications
Americans Attack
Amity Reformed Church
Anchor Diamond Park
Anchor of the American Line
Angus McDearmid
Aqueduct, 1842
Arlington Hotel
Arnolds Assault
Articles of Convention
Asa Chatfield Farm
Asa Clark House
Ballston Center
Ballston Church
Ballston Site Of
Barkersville
Barkersville
Barker's Store
Bartlett House
Batchellerville
Batchellerville Presbyterian Church
Battle of Wilton
Beecher Hollow
Beecher Hollow
Beecher's Store
Bemis Heights
Benedict Arnold Boot Monument
Beriah Palmer
Best House
Bettys Family
Bill Greenfield
Birthplace of Abigail Powers Fillmore
Birthplace of Abner Doubleday
Birthplace of Howard Lindsay
Bloody Knoll
Bow Bridge
Brig. Gen. Abraham Ten Broeck
Brigadier General Simon Fraser
Briggs Cemetery
British Army Grounded Arms
British Artillery Park
Brookwood
Bryan Home
Building the Batchellerville Bridge
Bullard Paper Company Chimney
Burgoyne Hopelessly Surrounded
Burgoynes Headquarters
Burgoynes Retreat
Burial Site of General Fraser
Burnt Hills Baptist Church
Button Park
C. Boughton Farm
Calvary Episcopal Church
Camp of General Burgoyne
Canal Square
Captain Abner Doubleday
Captain Martin John Burke
Carriage Shop
Cast Iron Whipple Truss Bridge, 1869
Cemetery 1864
Centennial Barn
Champlain Canal
Charlton
Charlton
Charlton
Charlton
Charlton
Charlton Academy
Charlton Museum
Christ Episcopal Church
Church c. 1795
Church, c. 1788
Clifton Park
Clifton Park Center
Clifton Park Center Baptist Church
Clifton Park Village Hotel
Clutes Dry Dock
Clutes Dry Dock
Cohoes - Waterford Bridge
Col. Ellsworth
Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth
Col. Elmer Ellsworth
Col. Sidney Berry
Colonel Joseph Cilly
Colonel Morgan
Colonel Morgan
Colonial Inn
Columbian Spring
Conde Creek
Congress Park
Congress Spring
Conklingville
Conklingville Cemetery
Continental Barracks
Copeland Carriage Shop
Corinth Civil War Memorial
Corinth World Wars Memorial
Country Club Acres, 1957
County Seat
Covered Bridge
Coveville
Creation of the Park
Crescent
Crescent
Crescent / Mohawk Towpath Byway / Halfmoon
Crescent Aqueduct
Crown Forces
Crown Forces Artillery Park
Crown Forces Baggage Park
Dam Built 1930
Day Center
Day Center Town Cemetery
Dedicated To
Denier Place
Deridder Horse Ferry
Desert Shield / Desert Storm
Dirck Swart House
Dovegat House
Dr. Orra Phelps
Dublin
Dunning Farm Site
Dunning Street Common
Dunning Street Rural Cemetery
Dutch Reformed Church
E. Hubbell 1831
Eagle Tavern Site
Earliest Cemetery
Early Settler
Earthworks
East Line
East Line Union Cemetery
Edinburg War Memorial
Edmund Jennings
Eliphalet Ball
Emersons Tavern
Erie Canal
Family Cemetery
Ferry
Ferry Lane
First Bridge
First Christian Church
First School
First Town Meeting
Five Porch Farm
Flax and Linen Mill
Flight of Five Locks
Floud Memorial Park
Fonda Road
Forgotten Lives; Working Class Families of the Canal Era Revealed
Fort Hardy
Fort Miller
Fort Vrooman
Franklin Square
Frasers Corps
Frederick Douglass
Freeman House
Galway Village
Galway War Memorial
Gansevoort Mansion
Garnsey House
Gates Headquarters
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
Gen. Henry Knox Trail
General Fraser Was Struck
General Gates Headquarters
General Stark
George O. Slingerland
Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery
Gideon Putnam Burying Grounds
Glass Factory
Glen Mitchell
Glens Falls and James Fenimore Cooper
Gonzalez Home
Grant Cottage
Grant Cottage
Grant Cottage
Grant Cottage
Grants Last Trip to the Eastern Outlook
Grants Last View of the Valley
Gray Cemetery
Great Sacandaga Lake
Hadley & Lake Luzerne Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial
Hadley Bow Bridge
Hadley Station
Halfmoon
Halfmoon Academy
Halfmoon Fort
Halfmoon War Memorial
Hall of Springs
Hamlet of Vischer Ferry
Harmanus Schuyler Mansion
Harmony Corners
Hawkwood Mansion
Hawkwood Mansion
Henry Hudson
Here Frazer Fell
Here in 1800 / Here in 1900
High Rock in the 1800s
Highrock Park
Historic Bridge
Historic Sites
Historic Yards
Home of George Scott
Home of Jonathan Filer
Home of Samuel Young
Hotel c. 1790
Hotel Site
Huntsville
Hydroelectric Power Plant
Immigrant City
In Grateful Memory
In Memory
Indian Spring
Inn of William Bettys
Irish House
Issac Eddy House
James Gordon
Jeremiah Smith Cemetery
Jeremy Rockwell
Jessups Landing
John Clinton
John Hardin Memorial
John McCrea
John Neilson House and Farm
John W. Taylor
Jonesville Academy 1836-76
Joseph Henry
Kayaderosseras
Ketchums Corners
Kingsley Inn
Korea
Kosciuszko
L. Garnsey House
Lakes to Locks Passage
Lakes to Locks Passage
Lakes to Locks Passage
Larkin House
Larkins Corners
Leland House
Lester Park
Lincoln Bathhouse
Lock 19
Lock 2 Park
Luther Forest
Luther Forest
Luther Forest
Lynwood Church
M.C. Illions Carousel
Macelroy Farm
Main British Encampment
Main Crown Forces Hospital
Major Nathan Goodale
Malta Drive-In Signs
Malta Ridge
Malta Ridge Cemetery
Malta West Ridge Cemetery
Maltaville
Marvin Homestead
Matthew Sgritta
Mawney Tavern
McCrea Hill
McDonalds Site
Meads Tavern
Mechanicville Veterans Memorial
Milltown USA
Milton Centre
Milton Hill
Montgomery Lodge R.A.M.
New Hampshire Memorial
New York and Massachusetts Forces
New York State County Highway Superintendents Association
New Yorker Submariners Memorial
Newtown
Nicholas Fish
North Milton
North Redan
Northumberland Veterans Memorial
Northumberland: A Thriving Canal Community
Nov. 28, 1745
Oakcliff
Old Baptist Meeting House
Old Country Store
Old Road
Old Town Hall
Paper Mill
Parade Ground
Parkis Mills
Parsonage of Dutch Church
Patenaude Park
Patriots Eye-View
Peck House
Pine Grove
Pine Grove
Pioneer Farm
Post Office
Prelude to History
Presbyterian Church
Quaker Springs
Redoubt
Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad
Reverend Ball Cabin
Rexford Cemetery
Rexford House
Riley-Allen Cobblestone House
Rock City Falls
Rockefeller Memorial
Rose Hill Water Tower
Round Lake
Rowland's Hollow
Rural Museum
S. Batcheller Home
Samuel Davis MD
Samuel Smith House
Saratoga 1777
Saratoga 1777
Saratoga County Bank
Saratoga County Spanish-American War Memorial
Saratoga Monument
Saratoga Monument Association
Saratoga Springs Air Force Station
Saratoga Springs Civil War Memorial
Saratoga State Seal Waters
Saratoga Surrender Site
Saratogas First Resort for Travelers
Saratogas Spouting Springs
Saving The Springs
Schauber House
School c. 1860
Schuylerville World War I Monument
Scotch Church
Scotch Street
Scribner Home
Seabury Mills
Shepherd House
Shopmyer House
Site of
Site Of Camp of General Burgoyne
Site of Chatfield Farm
Site of First Court
Site Of John McClelland
Site of Schuyler Mansion
Site of Smith-Caldwell Van Aernem Home
Site of the South Glens Falls Water Plant
Site of the Taylor Cabin
Slab Troy
Solomon Northup
Southard House
Spice Factory
Stage Run
Standard Time
Starks Knob
Stephen White
Stevens School
Stillwater Blockhouse
Stillwater World War I Memorial
Stimson House
Store 1892
Strategy and Terrain
Surviving Portion of Champlain Canal
Tavern c. 1820
Tennantville
Thaddeus Kosciusko
The 77th Regiment, New York Volunteers
The Academy
The Balcarres Redoubt
The Battle Begins at Barbers Wheat Field
The Battle of Freemans Farm
The Breymann Redoubt
The British Advance on Bemis Heights
The British Withdraw
The Canadian Cabins
The Canal System
The Charlton School
The Deer Park Spring
The First Baptist Church
The Gere House
The Great Redoubt
The Hemlocks
The Historic Hudson River
The Hotel and Ulysses S. Grant at Mt. McGregor
The Italian Renaissance Gardens
The Last Ditch Defenses
The Loyalists Leave Early
The Marshall House
The Mohican Nation Yesterday and Today
The River Redoubts
The Schuyler House
The South Glens Falls Hydroelectric Project
The Stench of Failure
The Story Starts Here
The Surrender Tree
The Vischer Family
The Vischer Ferry Bridge
The Waterways that Shaped a Nation
These Gates
This is the Way North
Timothy Murphy
To the Battlefield
To the Battlefield
To Those Who Served
Town Hall
Town Meeting
Town of Ballston
Town of Halfmoon
Town of Saratoga
Town of Saratoga
Town of Saratoga
Town of Saratoga
Train of Artillery (2007)
Trip-Hammer
Troy - Waterford Bridge
Turnpike
Two Brothers Meet Again
U.S.S. Saratoga
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant Died
Union Bridge
United Church
Unknown American Soldiers
Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldiers
USS Saratoga: Turning point in Americas second war with England
Van Den Bergh
Vandenburgh Dunsbach Ferry
Vanhyning-Roerig
Victory Woods
Victory Woods
Victory Woods
Village of Waterford
Vischer Ferry
Vischer Ferry Historic District
Vischer Ferry Nature and Historic Preserve
Vischer House
Water Battery
Water Ford
Waterford
Waterford
Waterford
Waterford
Waterford Bridges
Waterford N.Y.
Waterford Station
Waterford Village Historic District
Waterford War Memorial
Waterman House
West Charlton
West Crescent
West Milton
West Milton
Whipple Iron Truss Bridge
White Homestead
Whitney Field
Wiggins Collamer
Wiggins-Brown-Nolen
Winans-Crippen House- 1871
World War Memorial Pavillion
Yellow Meeting House
Youth Park
Youve Been Robbed!
Zebulon Bidwell
Hi-N-Dri
The Gut or The Valley
About Saratoga County
Saratoga County Timeline
Saratoga County, located in upstate New York, has a rich history dating back to the colonial era. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes such as the Mohawk and Mohican people. In the early 17th century, European settlers arrived and began to establish farms and trading posts.
In 1776, during the American Revolution, the Saratoga area became a pivotal location. The Battles of Saratoga, fought in September and October of 1777, were a turning point in the war. These victories by American forces under General Horatio Gates marked the first significant defeat of the British army and ultimately led to France entering the war on the side of the colonists.
After the revolution, Saratoga County continued to develop as a center for agriculture and industry. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 further boosted the region's economy by facilitating trade and transportation. Saratoga Springs, a town located within the county, became famous for its natural mineral springs and attracted wealthy visitors seeking rest and recuperation.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Saratoga County experienced a period of industrial growth. Manufacturing industries, such as textile mills and paper factories, flourished in cities like Mechanicville and Waterford. In the late 20th century, the county's economy shifted towards services, including tourism, healthcare, and technology.
Today, Saratoga County remains a vibrant and growing area known for its natural beauty, historical significance, and cultural attractions. It is home to the Saratoga Race Course, one of the oldest and most prestigious thoroughbred horse racing tracks in the United States, as well as the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which hosts world-class music and dance performances. The county continues to preserve and celebrate its rich history while embracing the opportunities of the modern era.
In 1776, during the American Revolution, the Saratoga area became a pivotal location. The Battles of Saratoga, fought in September and October of 1777, were a turning point in the war. These victories by American forces under General Horatio Gates marked the first significant defeat of the British army and ultimately led to France entering the war on the side of the colonists.
After the revolution, Saratoga County continued to develop as a center for agriculture and industry. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 further boosted the region's economy by facilitating trade and transportation. Saratoga Springs, a town located within the county, became famous for its natural mineral springs and attracted wealthy visitors seeking rest and recuperation.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Saratoga County experienced a period of industrial growth. Manufacturing industries, such as textile mills and paper factories, flourished in cities like Mechanicville and Waterford. In the late 20th century, the county's economy shifted towards services, including tourism, healthcare, and technology.
Today, Saratoga County remains a vibrant and growing area known for its natural beauty, historical significance, and cultural attractions. It is home to the Saratoga Race Course, one of the oldest and most prestigious thoroughbred horse racing tracks in the United States, as well as the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which hosts world-class music and dance performances. The county continues to preserve and celebrate its rich history while embracing the opportunities of the modern era.
Saratoga County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Saratoga County, New York.
- Saratoga County is formed in 1791.
- The Battle of Saratoga takes place in 1777, a turning point in the American Revolution.
- European settlers arrive in the area in the 17th century.
- The region is originally inhabited by Native American tribes, such as the Mohawk and Algonquin.
- The Saratoga Race Course opens in 1863, becoming a renowned venue for horse racing.
- The construction of the Erie Canal reaches Saratoga County in 1823, aiding its economic growth.
- The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is established in 1966, hosting world-class performances.
- The Battle of Bennington, a key Revolutionary War battle, takes place near the county in 1777.
- Saratoga Springs becomes a popular spa destination in the 19th century, attracting visitors from around the world.
- The county experiences significant suburban development and population growth in the 20th century.