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The Petrified Sea Gardens site is located at 42 Petrified Sea Gardens Road, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of N.Y. 29, in far western Saratoga Springs, New York.The site is about 25 acres (10 ha) in size, although the outcrops of interest occupy only about 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of the largely wooded site.
The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1] Five of the properties and districts are further designated U.S. National Historic Landmarks.
Petrified Gardens: April 1967: Saratoga Springs: Saratoga: Private This private park preserves an area of ancient stromatolites in a fossilized ancient Cambrian reef. Stromatolites "were first recognized, discovered, and interpreted in North America" here in 1922.
Fossils of microbes, sea sponges, insects, sharks, early amphibians and mammals have been discovered in the rocks around the state, representing over 1 billion years of life on Earth.
Perspective map of Saratoga Springs with image of racetrack inset and list of landmarks from 1888 by L.R. Burleigh. The first permanent European-American settler built a dwelling in the area circa 1776. [12] The springs attracted tourists, and Gideon Putnam built the first hotel for travelers. Putnam also laid out the roads and donated land for ...
He spent much of his time working in this small building, which served him as both office and laboratory. Among his many discoveries here, Hall found that the stromatolite fossils discovered at Petrified Sea Gardens, a site near Saratoga Springs, also a National Historic Landmark, were originally organic. [4]
Hall and Peter Lesley's Map Illustrating the General Geological Features of the Country West of the Mississippi River, 1857. Geology of New York, Part IV (1843) Palaeontology of New York, 8 volumes (1847–1894). vol. 1; Geological Survey of Iowa, 2 volumes (1858–1859) Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Wisconsin (1862)
Most of the objections posted Wednesday to the lawsuit settlement set to alter the college-sports model concerned the impact roster limits will have on players in so-called “Olympic sports ...