Correspondence and working files for Saratoga County Historical Survey
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series contains records resulting from a 15-week white collar relief project funded through the State Temporary Emergency
Relief Administration. Records of the survey include: memoranda on procedures and staffing of the project; correspondence
of the survey supervisor; newspaper clippings about the survey and historical events related to survey work; descriptions
of and extracts from public records and private manuscripts; drawings of markers and monuments on the Saratoga battlefield;
and notes on the history of Saratoga County.
Creator:
Title:
Correspondence and working files for Saratoga County Historical Survey
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1935
Series Number:
A4194
Arrangement
Alphabetic by city, town, or village.
Administrative History
The Historical Survey's goals were to locate and inventory public records and private manuscripts, identify marked and unmarked
historic sites and structures, identify local cemeteries, and prepare brief historical essays. The project provided temporary
employment to individuals on the Saratoga County relief rolls, and was conducted under the general supervision of the Division
of Archives and History.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains records resulting from a 15-week white collar relief project funded through the State Temporary Emergency
Relief Administration.
Records of the survey include: memoranda on procedures and staffing of the project; correspondence of the survey supervisor,
mostly with field workers, concerning progress and conduct of the survey; newspaper clippings about the survey and historical
events related to survey work; descriptions of and extracts from public records and private manuscripts; drawings of markers
and monuments on the Saratoga battlefield; and notes on the history of Saratoga County.
The file of work completed for each city, village, or town may contain all or some of the following: narrative history of
the community; lists of public record series and private manuscripts; extracts from records; historic background information
on homesteads, historic sites, buildings, and markers; historic narratives on churches and cemeteries, including lists of
church records and selected headstone inscriptions; descriptions of historic markers; sketch maps showing the locations of
buildings and sites; and summarized recollections of elderly residents.
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Detailed Description
| Contents |
Box |
Folder |
Accretion: A4194-51 |
| Schuylerville Village |
1 |
1 |
| Town of Moreau, and Village of South Glens Falls |
1 |
2 |
| Correspondence Connected with the Survey |
1 |
7 |
| Saratoga Springs Village and City |
1 |
10 |
| Saratoga Springs Township |
1 |
11 |
| Village of Waterford Incorporated 1801 |
1 |
16 |
| A Digest of Sylvester's History of Saratoga County |
1 |
18 |
| Village of Ballston Spa |
1 |
20 |
| Monuments and Markers of Saratoga Battlefield |
2 |
7 |
| The Poor Relief Problem in Colonial and Early Nineteenth Century |
2 |
8 |
| Slavery Days in Saratoga County |
2 |
9 |
| Recalling the Life of the Old Champlain Canal |
2 |
10 |
| Church News of an Early Day |
2 |
11 |
| An Outline and Arrangement of Survey Material |
2 |
12 |
| Articles of Historical Survey in the Press |
2 |
13 |
