Sacandagalife

Ah the theater!  Who doesn’t love spending an evening at a play or musical?  …Okay, okay, so maybe it’s not for everyone.  But for those of us who do relish the experience, the Great Sacandaga Lake area does offer quite a theatrical buffet! Local theater is a much-unsung gem in our community.  From celebrating the…

Since the invention of the steam locomotive, America has had a love affair with trains. In fact, the historic Sacandaga Park owes much of its nostalgic past not just to the attractions that made it a tourist gem in the 1800’s, but also to the railroads that united the communities across the Sacandaga Valley and…

The word “Sacandaga” derives from the language of the Mohawk peoples meaning “the land of waving grass” – ironic when weighed against the fact that the whole region, in prehistoric times, was once beneath the ocean. Apart from the indigenous tribes that inhabited the land, the area that eventually became known as the Sacandaga Valley…

Did you know?  …Stretching 29 miles spanning Fulton, Saratoga and Hamilton counties and boasting 125 miles of shoreline, the Great Sacandaga Lake is a man-made reservoir!  It was created with the intentional flooding of the Sacandaga Valley upon the completion of the Conklingville Dam in the town of Hadley along the Sacandaga River in 1930.…