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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 identity of the individual posed out front is unknown but may be George’s son.   Local legend has it that a disgruntled customer at Moon’s sent back his fried potatoes… Read more »

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 his former country home burned by the British in October.  

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 as a site for camps and homes.   In 1884 Thomas Luther began managing the White Sulphur Spring Hotel for the Saratoga Lake Railway Company.  In 1888 he bought the hotel… Read more »

Auto race in progress at Ballston Spa Motor Races. The cars are barely visible behind the dust; the grandstand in background. October 3, 1914.