Anyway, have you heard of the Saratoga Witch? Her name was Angeline Tubb, a British soldier's girlfriend, abandoned here after the Revolutionary War. So, back in the late 1800's a strange story about her emerged from papers found on the person of a decaying body, found kinda near where she inhabited, north of Saratoga Springs, about the wilderness area west of Rt. 9 and Northern Pines Rd. Old maps show it as "Devil's Den" Here is an excerpt from the Saratogian 1869
There's this story about someone keeping a piece of Gen. Grant's skin, for keepsake!
Strange side note to the fact that Holmes was deemed to drunk to embalm Gen Grant. You might know Holmes' family brownstones, the Woodlawn brownstones that are being rebuilt after a devastating fire a few years ago. Word is, the houses were built as additions on the north side, the original house, being Holmes' embalming chamber.
Then, there's the Sadler Burying Ground, a graveyard that once existed near High Rock and Nelson Ave!
Most of the graves were moved to the Greenridge cemetery on Lincoln Ave. I said, most.
Creepy, eh?
