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About Ballston Spa NY

Ballston Spa Village Ballston Spa is a village in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 5,556 at the 2000 census.

It is the county seat of Saratoga County. The name is from Eliphalet Ball, an early settler.

The village lies on the border of two towns and is partly in the Town of Ballston and partly in the Town of Milton. The village is southwest of Saratoga Springs.

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History Ballston Spa NY

Ballston Spa Victorian Village The village was first settled in 1771 and was incorporated as a village in 1807.

  • It was formerly famous due to a mineral water spring used for healing, and for the San Souci Hotel, which in the early 19th century was the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world. It was known (in the 18th and 19th centuries) for its healing springs, including the Hawthorne and Lithia Springs.

  • The effervescent water, tonic, and cathartic from this city is also known as Ballston Spa. The liquid contains common salt and carbonates of magnesium and calcium

  • Ballston Spa was at one time the 11th most populated region in the future United States.

    Ballston Spa National Bottle Museum

  • Ballston Spa is home to the National Bottle Museum. The National Bottle Museum is located on Milton Avenue (NY 50/67) in downtown Ballston Spa, New York, United States. Established in 1978, it has a collection of around 2,000 antique bottles, most made prior to industrialization of the process in 1903.

    In 1996 it received a charter from the state Board of Regents. The museum also exhibits the tools of early bottle making, and hosts demonstrations of the technique. It is the only glassworks outside the Steuben division of Corning Glass Works to allow public access.

  • Ballston Spa is the birthplace of Abner Doubleday, believed by some to be the creator of baseball.

  • Portions of the novel "The Last of the Mohicans" were written by James Fenimore Cooper in the present day Brookside Museum and inspired by the local landscape.

    Ballston Spa Brookside Museum


    Brookside Museum, sometimes known as the Aldridge House, is located on the western edge of downtown Ballston Spa, New York, United States. It is a wooden house built in the 1790s, one of the oldest in the village, but modified since then. It was originally used as an inn for visitors to the spring waters that gave the village its name, very near its location.

    The inn had several famous guests including James Fenimore Cooper. The building has been a boys' school, a private residence, a boarding house, a sanatorium, and apartments. In 1970, the Saratoga County Historical Society purchased the building and opened it as a museum. In 1975 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places[4], the first of four properties in the village to be listed. It currently is home to the Saratoga County Historical Society, which operates it as a local history museum.

  • George West (known as the "Paper Bag King") developed a line of square-bottomed paper bags which he manufactured by the millions after the American Civil War, and at one time owned almost a dozen paper mills located along the Kayaderosseras Creek.

  • Several scenes in Sydney Pollack's 1973 film "The Way We Were" were filmed on Ballston Spa's Front Street.

  • Ballston Spa was home to the Ballston Knitting Company from 1918 to 1994.

  • In 1787 Benajah Douglas, father of 1860 presidential candidate Stephen Douglas, built the first tavern and hotel at Ballston Spa. It was located near the natural spring.

    Ballston Lake San Souci Hotel
  • Ballston Spa's San Souci Hotel was the largest hotel in the United States when it was built by Nicholas Low in 1803. Presidents, senators and governors stayed there, as well as many wealthy private citizens.

  • Scenes from "The Horse Whisperer" (1998)--were filmed in Ballston Spa.

  • Ballston Spa was once served by four railroads (Delaware and Hudson Railway, The Ballston Terminal Railroad, Schenectady Railway, and the Hudson Valley Railway).

  • Ballston Spa was the model for the village of North Bath, NY, the setting for the 1993 best-selling novel and 1994 movie, Nobody's Fool. The book's author, Richard Russo, is a native of nearby Gloversville.

  • It was also the location of the fictional "Elspeth Hatch" murder trial ..defended by "Clarence Darrow" set in 1897 in the book titled "Angel of darkness" by author "Caleb Carr"

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