Identifier: trolleyexploring00chil (find matches)
Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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OT connected with any of the preceding systems thereare yet a half dozen famous trolley trips that mightwell be taken if opportunity should come. All leadthrough fine sections of country that can be seenbetter this way than in any other. ROUTE 61. From Albany to Caldwell on LakeGeorge and Warrensburg on SchroonLake. A branch to Ballston Spa andSaratoga. Seventy-one miles from Albany into the Lake Georgecountry and touching the Schroon country, with a side trip into Saratoga audover the historic Sara-toga battle ground,does this electric linerun. The single fareover it from Albanyto Lake George is$1.25, and the timeconsumed in makingthe trip about 5 hours.The liue runs throughWatervliet and Co-hoes, Waterford,Lansirvgburgh,Troy, Mecharvic-ville (here branchingto FLovirvd Lake,Ballston Spa, Sar-atoga Springs andSaratoga Lake),Schuylerville, Fort the surrender tree,11 on trolley to Edward, Sandylake george. Hill, Glens Falls,
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90 Trolley Exploring. Caldwell, Warrensbvjrg. The cars are heavy, handsomely ap-pointed, and all have smoking compartments forward. The carsof the Hudson Valley Railroad Company should be inquired forin Albany. This country is rich in picturesqueness and historic traditions.The cars run, for part of the way, along the old military roadfrom Fort Orange (Albany) to Canada. Up towards Schuyler-ville marched in Colonial days the warriors of the Five Nations.Close by here was the Revolutionary battle of Bemis Heights,in 1T77. Near here, also, Fort Saratoga was surprised and Cap-tain Philip Schuyler massacred. The old Schuyler Mansion isstill standing. Too, there is the spot, marked by a great tree,where Burgoyne surrendered to Gates, and a monument whosecornerstone was laid in 1877. Fort Edward was the scene of many frontier romances, andits life as a trading post began in 1709. All through this regionthere is a vast amount of history to be pleasantly unearthed. At Glens Falls is Uncas and

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