Saratoga Springwatercolors continued...

I have been rendering watercolor paintings of each spring in Saratoga Springs, using each respective spring's water, for the watercolor painting. Here's some more...

Congress Spring

 Possibly Saratoga's most famous spring, Congress Spring sits just south of the entrance way to Congress Park.  Gideon Putnam, Saratoga's founder, and original owner of the land known as Saratoga Springs, tubed it around 1809. Congress Spring was drilled to it's running state as we know it today, by John Clarke, around 1822. John owned the land later, and John built pavilions for Congress (and Colombian) Spring, using Greek Revival style pillars for the Congress that also adorn his mansion over looking the park, on Circular St. 
 The Congress Spring was named by the Jewel family, I found a neat story in a sweet book from 1880 called Reminiscences of Saratoga 

Colombian Spring
The Colombian Spring was drilled in 1806 by Gideon Putnam, creator of Saratoga Springs. It was known as Iron Water and was purported to strengthen the gut, and up your red blood cell count. The original spring no longer flows and now is basically tap water sourced from Loughberry Lake.

Thanks! More to come soon!