A pleasant middle aged lady came out of a nearby tourist information booth to give my wife and I a charming historical account. We had just toured the battlefield, so it was fun listening to her. She also directed us to the nearby monument which was also quite impressive.
Yes, they are killing the goose who laid Golden eggs, very sad.
“...I remember stopping in Saratoga Springs briefly about seven years ago. There was a cute little roadside city park with a giant tree under which Johnny Burgoyne surrendered to Horatio Gates in 1777.
A pleasant middle aged lady came out of a nearby tourist information booth to give my wife and I a charming historical account. We had just toured the battlefield, so it was fun listening to her...” [Vigilanteman, post 5]
The surrender did not take place in the modern city of Saratoga Springs (in 1777, it was only a frontier crossroads near some mineral springs; not officially a village until 1826, nor a city until 1915). The historic marker is in what is now the town of Schuylerville eight miles east, where Fish Creek flows into the Hudson River. About ten miles north of the National Historic Site of the battlefields.