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THE FOUNDATION :
FROM TOWN TO VILLAGE
1708 Kayaderosseras Patent
1777 Battle of Saratoga
1789 Gideon Putnam arrives to
settle near the springs
1791 Saratoga County est.
1795 Stage line links Ballston
& Saratoga Springs
1803 Putnam's Boarding House
1807 North River Steamboat
Line connects New York City to Albany
1809 V. Seaman mineral springs map
1810 J. Scott plat, Putnam's property
1812 First schoolhouse built
in then-Village of Congress
Spring.
1812 Congress Hall opens
1819 Saratoga Springs becomes a
separate town
1824 United States Hotel opens
1826 Village Charter
John Clarke purchases land he
later transforms into Congress Park
1831 Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad
1833 First steam locomotive to the village
1842 Ben Scribner opens 1st gambling
house
1847 Town has 3 wards
1853 First gas street lighting
1863 Racetrack opens
1870 John Morrissey opens a clubhouse in
Congress Park
1871 Town Hall (city hall) built
1879 LH Cramer & JS Mott map
1893 Convention Hall opens
1894 First Floral Fete
1903 Young Women's Industrial
Club (late Skidmore College) opens
1907 Canfield Casino closes
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A CITY RISES
1909 NY State acquires mineral springs,
creates state Reservation
1911 Race Track closes for two seasons
1913 "Village Park" public park
(now Congress Park) opens
1915 City Charter adopted by
New York State Legislature
Trolley Station is built
1917 S.J. Mott's Outside District map
1918 Saratoga County Chamber
of Commerce forms
1923 City Council adopts zoning
map
1935 Saratoga Spa State
Reservation (now state park) opens
with baths, Hall of Springs
tree nursery, golf course
1938 First airmail flight
1939-1945 World War II
1949 Saratoga Springs Looks to the Future
1951 Saratoga Springs casinos closed
1956 Train station moves to West Ave.
1963 Northway (I-87) opens
1964 Urban Renewal in Saratoga Springs
1966 Saratoga Performing Arts Center opens
1973 Amtrak takes over D&H railroad
1976 US Bicentennial
Department of Public Works
begins restoring Congress Park
1984 City Center opens
1987 Washington Baths become
home of National Museum of Dance
2001 Beekman Street Art District begins
2004 Saratoga Gaming & Raceway begins
2015 Centennial of City Charter
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