THE MINERAL SPRINGS OF SARATOGA 7 



eriior Clinton honored the primitive watering place with their 

 presence. Four years later came Dr Samuel L. jMitchill, who was for 

 many years the leading scientific man in New York. Accommoda- 

 tions improved, but in the earlier years Ballston Spa was more 

 sought than Saratoga Springs.^ In the early part of the nineteenth 

 century the tide of travel again turned to Saratoga Springs and has 

 held this course ever since. 



As early as 1770 the medicinal properties of the waters were com- 

 mented upon by Doctor Constable of Schenectady, and in 1793, in 

 volume 2, page i, of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, was published a letter from Dr Samuel Tenney, a 

 regimental surgeon, at Saratoga. In the same year appeared a 

 " Dissertation upon the Mineral Waters of Saratoga," by Dr 

 Valentine Seaman of New York. In the course of the next century 

 a rather extended series of papers and separate books was devoted 

 to this subject, and it is to be hoped that wdth the development of 

 the springs as a health resort of increasing prominence the curative 

 properties of the waters and the attractions of the beautiful village 

 and surrounding country wull be more and more widely known. 



The following chronological list- gives the dates when the older 

 and better known springs were discovered as natural flowing vents, 

 or were developed with the drill : 



High Rock 



1767 



Pavilion 



1839 



Eureka 



1868 



Red Spring 



1784 



• United States 



1839 



Geyser 



1870 



Congress 



1792 



Empire 



1846 



Crystal 



1870 



Columbian 



1805 



Excelsior 



1859 



Champion 



1871 



Hamilton 



1806 



Saratoga A 



1865 



Vichy 



1872 



Washington 



1806 



Seltzer 



1865 



Kissingen 



1872 



Putnam 



1835 



Union 



1868 



Hathorn No 



.2 1890 



Star 



1835 



Hathorn 



1868 



No. 



3 1905 



^ It is important to discriminate properly between Saratoga and Sara- 

 toga Springs. Saratoga is a town on the banks of the Hudson. Along 

 its western boundary lies Saratoga Springs which is a separate town 

 and village. Saratoga on the river was settled over fifty years before 

 the springs attracted the attention of the whites. The battle of Sara- 

 toga was named from the eastern township, not from the springs. The 

 fame of the springs has so far overshadowed the older settlement as 

 to cause some confusion of mind among persons at a distance. 



- This list is taken chiefly from a work compiled by the local news- 

 paper, the Saratogan, and cnlitU-d. Our ("oiinty ;m<l its Pooplo, page 

 3U(), 1 899. 



