Robin Hood Motel Ballston Spa, NY Vintage Postcard Unposted for Sale

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Robin Hood Motel Ballston Spa, NY Vintage Postcard Unposted:
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26,636F ROBIN HOOD MOTELBallston Spa, Saratoga County New York1/2 Mile North of Ballston Spa, NY and 5 miles South of Saratoga Springs on NY Route 50.Comfortable Air Conditioned Rooms - Free Television - Picnic Area - Playground for Children - Springfed Swimming Pool with natural sand beach.
\"Ballston Spa is a village and the county seat of Saratoga County, New York, United States, located southwest of Saratoga Springs. It is part of the Capital Region. The population of the village, named after Rev. Eliphalet Ball, a Congregationalist clergyman and an early settler, was 5,111 at the 2020 census.[5] Ballston Spa lies on the border of two towns, situated partly in the Town of Ballston and partly in the Town of Milton. The Ballston Spa School District encompassing most of the combined towns of Milton, Malta, and Ballston is often referred to locally as ‘Ballston Spa’ with the village proper being referred to as ‘The Village’ or \'Town\'.
HistoryThe village was first settled in 1771. In 1787 Benajah Douglas, grandfather of 1860 presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas, built the first tavern and hotel at Ballston Spa. It was located near the natural spring.
In 1803, Ballston Spa\'s Sans Souci Hotel, at the time the largest hotel in the United States, was built by Nicholas Low. Presidents, senators and governors stayed there, as well as many wealthy private citizens. Ballston Spa was incorporated as a village in 1807.
At different times, the village was served by four railroads: the Delaware and Hudson Railway, the Ballston Terminal Railroad, the Schenectady Railway Company, and the Hudson Valley Railway.
The village was famous for its mineral water spring used for healing in sanatoria, including the Hawthorne and Lithia springs.
The effervescent water, tonic, and cathartic from this city is also known as Ballston Spa. The liquid contains common salt and carbonates of magnesium and calcium.
Movies, Music and BooksPortions of the novel The Last of the Mohicans were written by James Fenimore Cooper in the present day Brookside Museum and inspired by the local landscape.
Buster Red, a Depression era folk singer, wrote in his song \"When I Go Out\" details about his trip through Pennsylvania and New York. According to the song it was in Ballston Spa that he was ultimately found out for some crime or deception, before moving on to Saratoga.
The village was the model for the village of North Bath, NY, the setting for the 1993 best-selling novel and 1994 movie, Nobody\'s Fool. The book\'s author, Richard Russo, is a native of nearby Gloversville. It was also the location of the fictional \"Elspeth Hatch\" murder trial defended by Clarence Darrow set in 1897 in the book titled The Angel of Darkness by author Caleb Carr.
Several scenes in Sydney Pollack\'s 1973 film The Way We Were were filmed on Ballston Spa\'s Front Street. Scenes from The Horse Whisperer (1998) were also filmed in the village.
Since 2008 Ballston Spa has been home to the Ballston Spa Film Festival of short films from around the globe.
Ballston Spa was also mentioned in the 1963 novel The Tulip Tree by Howard Rigsby.\" - Wikipedia