True to our mission, Brookside is making our past relevant by working with local company, Pens Ink, to re-purpose wood from a fallen tree into beautiful works of art. Using only high quality materials, Pens Ink is turning Brookside wood into beautiful pens, fountain pens and wine stoppers. Each piece in this exclusive line of products is hand-turned and unique. Order… Read more »
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.
Check out the dress up activity of the Here Comes the Bride exhibit at Brookside.
A time capsule was found in the corner of the Chapman Street building during renovations in October 2013. The capsule was placed behind the corner stone of the building and contains several objects from November 8, 1899. Items were carefully removed and relocated here at the Brookside Museum for proper identification and preservation. Items will be on display before the Board… Read more »
Thanks to seventy generous donors, Lucas Aviles and his family, the McDonald Brothers’ Gravesite has finally been given the attention it needed! We snapped a few photos of the site so you can see just how much effort went into finding and preserving it. Though there’s still work to do, a lot of resources made this happen and we are grateful… Read more »
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 »
