Saratoga Springs, New York "Saratoga Springs"
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Saratoga Springs is a town/city in Saratoga County, New York, United States (not to be confused with the initial neighboring town of Saratoga, New York).
The populace was 26,586 at the 2010 census. The name reflects the existence of mineral springs in the area, which has made Saratoga a prominent resort destination for over 200 years.
Saratoga Springs was ranked tenth in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 as stated to the nationwide online real estate brokerage Movoto. See also: Timeline of Saratoga Springs, New York The Battle of Saratoga, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, did not take place in Saratoga Springs.
The British encampment before the surrender at Saratoga took place 10 miles (16 km) east of the city, in Schuylerville, where a several historical markers delineate points of interest.
Saratoga Springs was established as a settlement in 1819 from a portion of the Town of Saratoga.
Tourism was greatly aided after 1832 by the arrival of the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad, which brought thousands of travelers to the famous mineral springs.
With its richness of mineral waters, Saratoga Springs was advanced as a spa, generating the evolution of many large hotels, including the United States Hotel and the Grand Union Hotel.
In 1863, Saratoga Race Course opened, moving to its current locale the following year.
In addition, the Saratoga Springs region was known for its gambling, which after the first years of the 20th century was illegal, but still widespread.
Most gambling facilities were positioned on Saratoga Lake, on the southeast side of the city.
The method and demolition in the 1950s of some premier hotels, including the Grand Union and United States left Saratoga Springs damaged as a destination.
In addition, the assembly of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in the late 1960s, which features classical and prominent music and dance, furthered the city's renaissance.
According to legend, the creation of the potato chip is associated with Saratoga Springs.
The legend holds that a diner visiting the restaurant Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs in 1853 was unsatisfied with the texture of the fried potatoes he had ordered and sent them back to the kitchen multiple times in protest.
Saratoga Springs is positioned at 43 04 31 N 73 46 57 W (43.075337, -73.782422). New York State Route 29, New York State Route 50, New York State Route 9 - N, and New York State Route 9 - P lead into Saratoga Springs.
Saratoga Lake is southeast of the city.
Climate data for Saratoga Springs, New York Source: Weather.com (Monthly Averages for Saratoga Springs, NY (12866)) The Broadway Historic District in Downtown Saratoga Springs.
Saratoga Springs relies heavily on tourism as its chief source of income amid the summer season while the Saratoga Race Course is open.
The company precinct in Saratoga increasingly contributes to the economy year round, as the town/city has thriving many nationwide and global brand retailers, as well as small-town boutiques; it has turn into an upscale shopping destination for the Albany urbane area.
In industry, the Saratoga Spring Water Co.
Stewart's Shops, a prominent convenience store chain, which is an employee- and family-owned business, is headquartered in Saratoga Springs.
Gate A entrance to the Saratoga Race Course, at top; below is the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, which honors achievements in this sport.
The town/city is perhaps best known for the Saratoga Race Course, which opened on August 3, 1863.
The first track was positioned on East Avenue (at the present Oklahoma Training Track location) which is perpendicular to the present Saratoga Race Course, which opened the following year.
Saratoga Spa Golf -Located in Saratoga Spa State Park (public) Saratoga Springs Field Hockey Saratoga YMCA offers many these and other sports and there are private programs offered in Saratoga.
Theater Home Made Theater- A not-for-profit theatre business positioned in the Spa Little Theater of Saratoga Spa State Park Ballet New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga City Ballet Music - Caffe Lena, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Music Hall Columbian Spring, one of Saratoga's many enhance springs Before racing began in Saratoga, the area's natural mineral springs had been attracting richness for many decades.
The springs occur on a line where the north-south Saratoga Fault allows water trapped in subsurface shale layers to reach the surface.
In 1911 the New York State Reservation, now the Spa State Park, was created to protect the springs and the Lincoln and Roosevelt bath homes were built.
Other springs prominent in the nineteenth century which are no longer in use include the Hamilton Spring, the Patterson Spring, and the Favorite Spring. Superhorse, one of 34 fiberglass horses on display around downtown Saratoga Springs in the 2007 Horses, Saratoga Style exhibit of enhance art The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (known by its acronym "SPAC") is a veiled outside amphitheater positioned on the grounds of the Saratoga Spa State Park, with a capacity of 5,000 in reserved seating and 20,000+ on its general admission lawn area.
SPAC is the summer home of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Ballet, and has hosted a weekend-long jazz festival since 1978. Since 2006, the Saratoga Native American Festival has been held on SPAC grounds each fall. SPAC is a stop for touring nationwide recording artists: over 20 prominent bands grace the stage every summer.
Steps away on State Park grounds, the Spa Little Theater hosts the "Home Made Theater" as well as Opera Saratoga (formerly known as the Lake George Opera) amid the summer.
Museums in the region include the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and the Saratoga Automobile Museum.
Saratoga Springs is home to Yaddo, a 400-acre (1.62 km2; 0.63 sq mi) artists' community, established by Wall Street financier Spencer Trask and his wife, author Katrina Trask.
Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Sylvia Plath, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds are adjoining to the backstretch of the Saratoga Race Course.
Saratoga's New Year's celebration First Night Saratoga is the biggest New Year's Eve event in New York outside of New York City. Saratoga Springs centennial, 2015 Saratoga Springs History Museum Saratoga Arts Center The Saratoga Springs charter specifies a "commission" form of town/city government.
The most recent charter change proposal appeared on the ballot in the November 2012 election and was rejected. The Saratoga Springs City Council members for 2014 are: The town/city is one of only three in the state of New York to have a three-tier tax precinct system, the inside precinct being what was originally the village of Saratoga Springs, and the outside precinct being the town of Saratoga Springs minus the village.
See also: Saratoga Springs (Amtrak station) Saratoga County Airport, in Saratoga Springs.
There is also a general aviation facility, Saratoga County Airport (5 - B2), positioned west of town/city limits in the Town of Milton.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Saratoga Springs, operating its Adirondack daily in both directions between Central Station in Montreal and Penn Station in New York City and the Ethan Allen Express daily in both directions between Rutland, Vermont and New York City.
Exit 13-S is optimal for reaching Saratoga Lake, and 13-N for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and the southern and quadrants of the city.
Visitors to the Saratoga Race Course use Exit 14, which is also arguably best for reaching downtown from the south.
Empire State College and Skidmore College are both positioned in Saratoga Springs; Verrazzano College (1969 1975) was also positioned there.
Eastern Nazarene College, positioned in Quincy, Massachusetts, was established in Saratoga Springs as the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute and Biblical Seminary at the turn of the 20th century.
The Saratoga Springs City School District is made up of: Six elementary schools (kindergarten through undertaking five) Lake Avenue, Caroline Street, Division Street and Geyser Road in the City of Saratoga Springs; Greenfield in the Town of Greenfield; and Dorothy Nolan in the Town of Wilton One high school (grades nine through twelve) Saratoga Springs High School positioned on the West side on Blue Streak Boulevard in the City of Saratoga Springs.
Private schools in Saratoga Springs include Saratoga Central Catholic High School, St.
Clement's Regional Catholic School, The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, and Saratoga Independent School.
Saratoga Spa State Park The Saratoga Spa State Park capitalizes on the culture and mineral springs that drove Saratoga Springs.
This is a large state park and includes a hotel, 2 pool complexes, mineral baths, Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), picnic areas, hiking trails and various mineral springs.
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center, positioned on the State Park grounds, has been the summer home of the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York City Ballet since 1966.
The park is also home to the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, the Saratoga Automobile Museum, the Lincoln Mineral Baths and Spa, and the Gideon Putnam Resort & Spa.
In addition, the town/city said that they lacked funds to staff guards at the park and claimed it had spent nearly $200,000 on the park since it opened in 1988. After a group of skateboarders lobbied the town/city and publicly offered to dig out the pool by hand, the town/city excavated it in November 2011. The skatepark is now free, open to the enhance and endorses a skate-at-your-own-risk policy per the New York Recreational Use Statute.
Dave Cummings, Adult Hall of Fame performer, interval up in Saratoga Springs 1977 Saratoga Springs High School graduate and winner of the Yaddo Medal Scott Valentine, tv (Family Ties) and motion picture actor, graduate of Saratoga Springs High School Monty Woolley, American actor, best known for his part in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner; interval up in Saratoga Springs, where his father managed the Grand Union Hotel Jerry Bailey, Retired jockey, Jerry Bailey has no relation to Saratoga other than racing at the Saratoga Race Course and spending his summers in Saratoga Dave Erb, 1956 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner on the colt Needles, won many other stakes competitions; lives in neighboring Greenfield, New York, which borders Saratoga Springs Justin Morrow, figure-skater; two-time nationwide ice-dancing medalist; 2005 Saratoga Springs High School graduate Dottie Pepper-Normoyle, golfer; 1983 graduate of Saratoga Springs High School, daughter of Major League basketball player Don Pepper Tim Stauffer, Major League Baseball pitcher; attended Saratoga Central Catholic High School Anthony Weaver, football player; former defensive end with the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans, 1998 Saratoga Springs High School graduate Amy Peterson, 5 time olympian, speed skater, 5 time medalist, presently lives in Saratoga Springs Callen Sisters (Jess and Beth), sister musicians; 2001 and 2002 Saratoga Springs High School graduates, in the order given Dorian Crozier, drummer who has sat in with Five for Fighting and The Rembrandts; 1989 Saratoga Springs High School graduate The Figgs, a band formed in 1987 by Mike Gent, Pete Donnelly, and Guy Lyons, 1989 and 1990 Saratoga Springs High School graduates Dave Luetkenhoelter, bass player for Kutless; lived in Saratoga Springs for a short time amid high school Chauncey Olcott, famed Irish tenor and composer, author of My Wild Irish Rose maintained a home Inniscara in Saratoga Springs Scott Underwood, drummer for and member of Train; 1991 Saratoga Springs High School graduate Steven Millhauser, writer, winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize, lives in Saratoga Springs Dale Willman, award-winning journalist, co-publisher of Saratoga Wire, a small-town on-line news origin Nelson Cook (1808 1892), painter, lived in Saratoga Springs George Crum, inventor of the potato chip; a Native American/African American chef at Moon's Lake House on Saratoga Lake Albert Warren Ferris (1856 1937), Director of Saratoga Springs State Reservation Commission from 1913 1916 Mc - Gregor just north of Saratoga Springs Justin Michael Jenkins, artist, designer for Susan Polgar; 1989 Saratoga Springs High School graduate Naval officer owned a home in Saratoga Springs Jane Roberts (1929 1984), author, psychic and trance medium or spirit medium, born and interval up in Saratoga Springs Henry Walton (1804 1865), painter, born and interval up in Saratoga Springs, and produced his earliest work here.
Saratoga Springs and Saratoga society are incessantly featured on-screen and mentioned in films and television.
Saratoga Springs is notable for its horse racing.
Saratoga Race Course My Old Man (1979) Kristy Mc - Nichol, Warren Oates, Eileen Brennan; made-for-TV movie, based on an Ernest Hemingway story, was filmed at Saratoga Race Course, various locations in Saratoga Springs, and throughout Saratoga County. Racing scenes were filmed at the Saratoga Race Course. Saratoga Trunk (1945) Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman; while it was set in Saratoga, it was not filmed there. Seabiscuit (2003) Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges; racing scenes shot at the Saratoga Race Course in November 2002.
The Horse Whisperer (1998) Robert Redford, Scarlett Johansson; special effects for the horse and rider accident were shot at the southern end of Saratoga Spa State Park.
Saratoga Springs was the setting for a radio soap opera by the same name, created by ZBS Foundation and written by Meatball Fulton.
The story incorporates Saratoga Springs historical facts and utilizes small-town actors as well as ZBS regulars.
A "Best of Saratoga Springs" compilation (c.
In the pilot episode of the 1960s sitcom Green Acres, it was noted that Eddie Albert's character of Oliver Wendell Douglas was born in Saratoga Springs.
In the 1972 Carly Simon song "You're So Vain" the singer references horseracing in Saratoga Springs: "Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga, and your horse naturally won...." It is believed that potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs, by Native American/African American chef George Crum, at Moon's Lake House on August 24, 1853 Walt Disney World Resort has a themed resort called Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, whose infamous and design was inspired by this city.
In the Magic Kingdom was modeled after and closely resembles the former Victorian era barns depot that once stood in downtown Saratoga Springs.
The James Bond novel, Diamonds are Forever contained a several scenes set in Saratoga Springs and its racecourse Mississippi Waveland, Mississippi In the spring of 2006, Saratoga Springs decided to help out the citizens of Waveland in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina via a "Mardi Gras"-esque festival downtown. Saratoga Performing Arts Center List of Mayors of Saratoga Springs, New York Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, a Disney resort inspired and designed like this town/city "Saratoga Spring Water chosen as official water for Presidential Inauguration Albany Business Review".
Saratoga Springs Heritage Area Visitor Center.
"The Lost Kineral Springs of Saratoga Springs, part 2".
Saratoga Arts Council.
"Saratoga Springs officials sworn in".
Saratoga Springs City School District website, www.saratogaschools.org "Skateboarding bowl filled at Saratoga Springs' East Side Rec".
"Photos: Saratoga Springs' East Side Rec skate bowl reopens".
"Grammy-winning Train drummer went to school, learned to play in Saratoga Springs".
Invented in Saratoga County, Starr, Timothy, 2008 "In Saratoga Springs, Catering to the Horse Set".
"Saratoga (1937)".
"Film shot in Saratoga Springs released on DVD; "Virgin Alexander" has won multiple awards".
The Traveler's Guide to the Hudson River, Saratoga Springs, Lake George, Falls of Niagara and Thousand Islands.
Child, Hamilton (1871), "Saratoga Springs", Gazetteer and company directory of Saratoga County, N.Y., and Queensbury, Warren County, for 1871, Syracuse: Printed at the Journal Office Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saratoga Springs, New York.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Saratoga Springs.
Wikisource has the text of the 1920 Encyclopedia Americana article Saratoga Springs.
City of Saratoga Springs Official site The Ultimate Guide to Saratoga County and Saratoga Springs, NY Official site Online Guide to Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Springs Centennial website Our Town: Saratoga Springs Documentary produced by WMHT (TV) Saratoga Springs Public Library.
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