HISTORY WRITTEN BY CHARLIE KUENZEL | PHOTOS PROVIDED BY THE GEORGE S. BOLSTER COLLECTION
BLIZZARD OF 1888
A blizzard hit Saratoga Springs in March of 1888 and resulted in snowfalls of near four feet in depth. The lack of motorized snow removal equipment made digging out a hard job. The spectacular Grand Union Hotel is in the background.
CHRISTMAS 1944
This image is of a few college students from Skidmore getting ready to board a train from the Saratoga train station to return home at holiday time. That train station was located on Railroad Place on the westside of Broadway.
GLEN MITCHELL TOBOGGAN RUN Glen Mitchell was the name of the area that today is the present-day Maple Avenue Middle School. In the late 1800s a group of people from Saratoga visited Canada and returned with a plan to build one of the first toboggan runs in America.
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