Saratoga Springs (New York)
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Location in New York
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| Foundation : | April 9, 1819 (town) April 7, 1915 (city) |
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Saratoga County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 5 ′ N , 73 ° 47 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 26,586 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 365.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 74.8 km 2 (approx. 29 mi 2 ) of which 72.7 km 2 (approx. 28 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 95 m | ||
| Postal code : | 12866 | ||
| Area code : | +1 518 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-65255 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 979462 | ||
| Website : | www.saratoga-springs.org | ||
| Mayor : | Meg Kelly | ||
 Saratoga Springs, Broadway (2009) |
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Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County in the state of New York in the United States . The name refers to the area's mineral springs that made Saratoga famous over 200 years ago. The city is north of Albany . At the 2010 census it had 26,586 inhabitants.
Saratoga Springs was ranked 10th among the ten most popular places to live in New York State in 2014.
history
Originally Algonquin- speaking Mahican Indians lived in the area , who were eventually expelled by Dutch and English settlers. In 1691 they built Fort Saratoga on the west bank of the Hudson River .
The Battle of Saratoga , which turned the American Revolutionary War , took place in 1777 not in Saratoga, but in Stillwater, 15 miles away .
Around 1776 the place was permanently settled, the entrepreneur Gideon Putnam (1763-1812) is considered the founder of the city , who settled there in 1789 and built the first hotel in Saratoga in 1802.
The actual founding of Saratoga Springs took place on April 9, 1819. In 1832, the city was connected to the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad , which from then on numerous travelers came to the city, who especially visited the famous mineral springs. The medical importance of these sources was promoted by the German doctor Simon Baruch .
In 1863 the Saratoga Race Course was opened, a horse racing track that made the city very attractive and made horse racing a popular pastime. The associated, long illegal betting, led to a further influx of tourists. Since 1937 the city has also been used as a location for films.
Potato chips were probably invented on August 24, 1853 by George Crum , a chef at the Moon Lake Lodge Hotel in Saratoga Springs, USA , because a guest - it is said to have been the industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt - had repeatedly complained about fried potatoes that were too thick. When they were finally so thin that they could no longer be eaten with a fork, the guest was delighted, to Crum's surprise, and his creation was finally included in the menu as Saratoga Chips . They soon became known all over New England . Another version, cited by the local museum as the more likely one, says that Crum's sister accidentally dropped a thinly sliced potato slice in hot fat, and Crum was so delighted with the result that he offered the potato chips at the restaurant.
Attractions
- Saratoga Springs History Museum, founded in 1883.
- The Yaddo artist colony , founded in 1926 and inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 .
- The Saratoga Performing Arts Center , the summer home of the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra, opened in 1966 .
- Saratoga Automobile Museum, opened in 2002.
- Saratoga Arts Center.
Films made in and around Saratoga Springs
- 1937: Saratoga , with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
- 1945: Playing with Fate (Saratoga Trunk) with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper
- 1962: Lolita , with Sue Lyon and James Mason
- 1981: Fear remains with Fred Astaire
- 1991: Billy Bathgate , with Dustin Hoffman , Nicole Kidman and Bruce Willis
- 1994: Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run , with Paul Newman , Jessica Tandy , Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith
- 1998: The Horse Whisperer , with Robert Redford and Scarlett Johansson
- 2003: Seabiscuit - With the will to succeed , with Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges
- 2009: The Skeptic , with Tim Daly
- 2013: Ass Backwards - We are the most beautiful , with June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson
- 2014: 12 Years a Slave , with Chiwetel Ejiofor , Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch
music
- In 1972 Carly Simon wrote in her famous song You're So Vain : "Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga, and your horse naturally won."
- In 1987, the video for Whitney Houston's song Didn't We Almost Have It All was filmed at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center .
sons and daughters of the town
- Reuben H. Walworth (1788–1867), lawyer and politician
- Miles Taylor (1805–1873), politician
- Calvin C. Chaffee (1811-1896), politician
- Charles Brackett (1892–1969), screenwriter
- Carleton J. King (1904–1977), politician
- Theodore Welton (1918-2010), theoretical physicist
- Jane Roberts (1929-1984), poet
- Dave Cummings (born 1940), actor and director
- Joseph Bruchac (* 1942), Native American author and member of the Abenaki tribal group
- David Hyde Pierce (born 1959), actor
- Matt Rhoades (* 1975), politician
- Kathleen Kauth (* 1979), ice hockey player
- Terra Naomi (* 1979), pop / rock / alternative / indie singer
