Remember When…

The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rock City Falls was named on March 1, 1844. The structure of 32 x 54 feet was built at a cost of $1,300. In […]

It’s snowing again today! Check out this shot of an old pine covered in white. Looks like J.S. Wooley enjoyed his time out in the snow, too.

Exterior view of Galway Volunteer Fire Department’s fire house burning down December 24, 1959. The Fire Company incorporated in 1922.

D.A. Foote’s team of work horses used in harvesting ice from Sylvan Lake (Foote’s Pond) in winter and delivering ice in summer.

Enjoy our first real snow today, winter is here! Downtown Ballston Spa in the snow on Front Street, with trolley and plow, circa 1900. HISTORICAL SERIES NO. 6.

Photo of Eagle Mattlee Fire Department, November 1931. Photograph by J.S. Wooley and Robert D. Scott.

Photo of George Crum’s (a.k.a. “Speck”) restaurant on Saratoga Lake.  Crum is credited with “inventing” the potato chip while a cook at Moon’s Lake House on Saratoga Lake in 1853.

The Schuyler House is located in Schuylerville (formerly Saratoga), NY. It was erected in 1777 by Schuyler, who commanded the Northern American Army until August 1777. This was to replace

Stereographic view of , Saratoga Lake, circa 1900.  Saratoga Lake, known to the Mohawk as Caniad-eri-os-se-ra, or Lake of the Crooked Stream, has long been popular with tourists and today