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Saratoga’s First Resort for Travelers
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Known to the Mohawk Indians as the Medicine Spring and now known as the High Rock Spring, this was Saratoga’s first resort for travelers. The first white man to visit the spring was Sir William Johnson in 1767. In 1783, Gen. George Washington, Gov. George Clinton, and Alexander Hamilton visited Gen. Phillip Schuyler here. In 1824, Joseph Bonaparte visited here.
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