The Gristmill is a local historical journal published quarterly by the SCHR

Summer 2022

• Elsa Von Blumen – The Girl Who Raced Horses
• All Eyes on the Turning Point!
• Major Daniel McAlpin – A Malta Tory
• Town of Milton Historian retires
• Factoid – Gideon Hawley
• Henry Laskau, Olympic Speed Walker
• The Bridge My Grandpa Built

Spring 2022

• The Great Bank Robbery – Part II
• 100,000 Fancy Fans: The Rise and Fall of the Splinterville Fan Factory
• The turning point for Ballston Spa came in 1986

Winter 2021

• The Great Waterford Bank Robbery – Part I
• Clark’s Silk Gloves: “Made in Saratoga Springs where health and fashion meet.”
• Scherer honored with Professional Acheivement Award
• Thomas Clement Luther He That Planted a Tree is a Servant of God
• News from Corinth on Nov. 18, 1883

Fall 2021

• The Flying Farmers of Blue Corners
• Anne Hampton, Wife of Solomon Northup
• The D & H Railroad Relocation Project

Summer 2021

• Ira Thomas: Ballston Spa’s Baseball Hero
• The Spirited Times of Samuel Hides
• History of Mount McGregor

Spring 2021

• Saratoga’s Broughton House
• Saratoga County Women Help Win the Vote
• When Yeggs hit Stillwater, again and again…

Winter 2020

• Slavery in Clifton Park
• The Spanish Flu of 1918-1920
• Small Pox devastated the Mohawks; Slavery restocked their population
• “The Last of the Revolutionary Pensioners” -Almost!
• Kayaderosseras Patent paid for in “dollars”, before adoption of US Currency

Fall 2020

• Don’t Take History for Granted by Ben Kemp
• Foote’s Pond by Bruce M. Manzer, Ph.D

Summer 2020

• The Traveling Banjo by Karen Staulters
• H.B. Massey Building: An Historical Restoration by Sue Hansen
• Sawmills in Saratoga County – Leading Industry in Early Years by G. Terry Scharrer

https://ballstonareahistoryroundtable.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/2020-summer-gristmill.pdf

Spring 2020

• The Summer of 1874 in Saratoga Springs by Charlie Kuenzel
• Waverly Hall: Ballston Spa’s Social, Cultural and Entertainment Center  by Bruce M. Manzer Ph.D.
• Waterford: A Good Place, a Better Tug by Russ VanDervoort

Spring 2020 Gristmill

Winter 2020

• Preserving Brookside Museum by Jim Richmond
• Lawrence Ruff – Pearl Harbor Hero by Sean Kelleher
• Saratoga County Municipal Historians
• Saratoga County – The fishing grounds of the Mohawk Nation by Charles Hogan

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Fall 2019

• Franklin Carpenter – Man of Four Wives by Lauren Roberts
• The Kemp House Fire, Ballston Spa, NY and the Pursuit of Better Firefighting Equipment by Rick Reynolds

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Summer 2019

• Emma We Hardly Knew Ye by Sam McKenzie
• William H. Manning by Paul Perreault
• Politician Memorabilia courtesy of William McPherson
• Con men cause ‘oil rush’ in 1865 by Charles Hogan

Gristmill Summer 2019 6 page web copy

Spring 2019

• Lincoln’s Guard by Rachael Clothier
• The County Printers by Jim Richmond
• The Remarkable Sherwoods of Ballston Center by Bruce M. Manzer, Ph.D

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Fall 2018 – First issue

• Forming History Society was part of community spirit by John Cromie, Esq.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Honoring our Veterans by Paul J. Loatman Jr., Ph.D.
• The Father of Clifton Park by John L. Scherer

Link to Gristmill PDF – Fall 2018