BALLSTON

SPA  , a village and the county-seat of Saratoga county, New York, U.S.A., about 7 M . S. of Saratoga Springs . Pop . (189o) 3527; (1900) 3923; (1910 U . S . Census) 4138 . It is served by the Delaware & Hudson railway, and is connected with Saratoga Springs, Albany, and Schenectady by electric lines . There are several manufacturing establishments, among which are one of the largest manufactories of paper-bags in the United States and a large tannery . It is, however, as a popular summer resort that Ballston Spa is best known . Many fine chalybeate and other springs rising through solid rock from a depth of about 650 ft. furnish a highly effervescent water of considerable medicinal and commercial value; The village has the Ballston Spa public library, the Saratoga county law library and the Saratoga county court house . Ballston Spa, which was named in honour of the Rev . Eliphalet Ball, an early settler, was settled about 1787 by the grandfather of Stephen A .

Douglas, and was incorporated in 1855 . See E . F . Prose, Centennial Hist. of Ballston Spa, 1908 .