And his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life, he was a man trying the take care of his family. And we get to tell a story here that most people dont know about. Welcome to Saratoga Springs on booktv. Located about four hours north of new york city, it has a population of about 27,000. Named for the numerous springs in the area, early settlers flocked here to experience the therapeutic effects of the natural mineral waters. Today Saratoga Springs is a popular Tourist Destination with its spas, revolutionary war history and horse racing. With the help of our spectrum cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well learn about the citys history and feature its Literary History including Andrew Mckenna on his battle with opioid addiction. Growing up, i thought the person who was addicted to heroin was under a bridge somewhere with, right . And was pushing a shopping cart around or Something Like that. Thats not the case. One of the most abused drugs right no
Charlie kinzer. They all came because of one main thing, its all about the water. The founding location, thats called the high rocks spring. That was visited for hundreds into thousands of years by the native americans, indigenous to this area. Thats within a saratoga is a mohawk term where it needs place of the great salt springs. So the springs in the Saratoga Springs you can still drink from them, you can still get water from them. The people do that a lot here . Especially the locals. If youve been to the majority of your life, probably someone, as a result theres a fair amount of bottling were people bring containers or bottles and fill those on a daily basis. We had 17 of them. They are different depths, different taste. This does not taste like you would expect. Its not like something you get out of your tap. The mineral waters in saratoga have so many trace elements, you name it, theres a ton of different trace elements. As a result these trace elements give along with a few ot
Discovered in 1792. It was found to be beneficial for certain diseases. And id like to say that Congress Park is a city park developed because of constipation. Because that was a disease that itwas most likely used to treat. It was to spur a Great Development of hotels, boarding houses and businesses generally here in saratoga springs. There was nothing here until the first was discovered. In fact, we think that the mohawk and mohican indians came here only for the mineral springs. It was not a place where they cant particularly. Perhaps they hunted here. So the first european americans came here in 1771. Probably finding the spring in the course of surveying and providing land that had been very inappropriately taken from the mohawks. So what happened in the very beginning, 1772 was that the first people to come here built long cabins. And anyone whos heard about this medicinal qualities of water made their way here. Paid a small sum of money to stay in one of these very rough long ca
He once was dying of cancer and his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life he was a man trying to take care of his family and we get to tell his story here that most people dont know about. Welcome to Saratoga Springs on the tv. Located about four hours north of new york city it has a population of about 27000. Names for the numerous springs in the area early settlers walked here to experience the therapeutic effects of the natural mineral or water. Today Saratoga Springs is a popular Tourist Destination with its spots. Revolutionary war history and. With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will learn about the citys history and feature its local Literary Community including Andrew Mckenna on his battle with opioid addiction. Growing up i thought the person who is addicted to heroin lived under a bridge somewhere and was pushing a shopping cart around or Something Like that you know, that is not the case. One of the most abus
Because it is the oldest sport in the country. Itself saw just about every racehorse that ever lived. Not all of them, but most of them. The New York Times magazine said that the battles for saratoga were the most important battles ever fought in the entire world in the last 1000 years because they resulted in surrender. It was the First Time Ever in World History that a british army surrendered. Welcome to Saratoga Springs, on American History tv. Healing mineral waters, revolutionary war battles, and worldrenowned horseracing are all part of the citys history. It is located about four hours north of new york city, and has a population of about 27,000. With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners, for the next 75 minutes we will learn about the citys history, including its connection to civil war and american president ulysses s. Grant. We begin our special feature on the battlefield that changed the tide in the revolutionary war. The New York Times magazine said the battles for sarat