Inscription on one of Saratoga Spa State Park’s bathhouses April 30, 2024 Return to: Elegant and Exuberant, Saratoga Springs Sports History, Horse Racing and Healing WatersFull resolution (2006 × 1504) Image navigation Previous Image Next Image Inscription on one of Saratoga Spa State Park’s bathhouses. In the early 1800s, folks from New York and Boston were drawn to the town because of its purported curative water, discovered hundreds of years earlier by northern New York’s Mohawk tribes.