From this location
“The Spirit of Glens Falls”
Hot air balloon
Made its maiden flight
July 4, 1977
At 7:14 P.M.
Adirondack Hot Air Balloon Festival Committee
Glens Falls, New York — — Map (db m148130) HM
Today,City Park serves as a hub for recreation and
relaxation for residents and visitors to Glens Falls. The
park also plays host to several annual events, concerts,
and weddings. Historically, the area now known as City
Park was once a bustling . . . — — Map (db m138815) HM
Cooper’s Cave is a natural chamber in a small unnamed limestone island at the bottom of Glen’s Falls. The cave is open at both ends, and, as the water rises below the falls, it flows through Cooper’s Cave from the channel on the north side of the . . . — — Map (db m148661) HM
Architect Ralph Adams Cram
Completed June 9, 1929
This property has been place on
The National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m148204) HM
Through this place passed Gen. Henry Knox in the winter of 1775-1776 to deliver to Gen. George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston Erected by The State of . . . — — Map (db m56840) HM
September 11th, 2001
Steel as recovered from World Trade Center
Courtesy of Port Authority of NY/NJ
Shankensville, Pa.
44
United 93
10:03
World Trade Center
2750
United 175
9:03
American 11
8:46
Pentagon
189 . . . — — Map (db m148126) WM
Where the Hudson River runs eastward before turning south is a series of falls, an obstacle to navigation but also a source of power. These lay athwart the north-south trail between Albany and Montreal. The Queensbury Patent of 23,000 . . . — — Map (db m56852) HM
Glens Falls
Although the founding fathers laid out Glen Falls a half mile to the north, their new village flourished at the foot of the hill. Abraham Wing built the first commercial enterprise in 1765, a combination tavern, inn, and store on . . . — — Map (db m148702) HM
The Global War on Terrorism Monument honors the military service members who served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families who supported them.
Their sacrifice will forever be remembered. — — Map (db m148686) WM
Born in 1821 into a poor family on the east side of Lake George, Henry Crandall went on to make a fortune as a lumberman. He retired at age 59 and until his death in 1913 he gave generously of his money. Legend has it that Henry Crandall was . . . — — Map (db m148783) HM
In 1892, local philanthropist and respected businessman Henry Crandall offered to fund a public library in Glens Falls. Crandell approached Superintendent of Glens Falls City Schools, Dr. Sherman Williams, and donated $2,500 to provide furniture . . . — — Map (db m172478) HM
One of the most decisive battles in world history ended with the surrender near here of the British army invading from Canada under General “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne in 1777. The defeat ended a summer-long campaign by over 7,000 British, Hessian . . . — — Map (db m56850) HM
In 1860, Zopher and Catherine DeLong moved to Glens Falls from the Saratoga County town of Day where Zopher had been a farmer, lumberman and proprietor of a general store. They purchased this Glen Street property, with its simple wooden house built . . . — — Map (db m147865) HM
One of America’s great and influential artists of the Twentieth Century, Weber Furlong was among the first to champion the modern art movement. The final years of her life were spent in Glens Falls, where she lived and taught near this site at her . . . — — Map (db m148128) HM
