Name: Saratoga

 

County: Carbon

 

Authority Name: Saratoga (Wyo.)

 

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Longitude:  1064823W

Latitude: 412718N

 

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Elevation: 6785/2068

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

Here are located the medicinal hot springs once used by the Indians. In the early 1870's William Caldwell homesteaded the land on which the springs are located, built a two room log cabin and a two tub bath house and became the postmaster of "Warm Springs." In 1883 Fenimore Chatterton, post trader at Fort Steele, established a general store at this point and a little later a town site was laid out on both sides of the North Platte River and named Saratoga after Saratoga Hot Springs, New York, to which the springs bore a similarity and because of the great popularity of the latter.  

Source: Annals 15(1)

 

“Mr. Caldwell of Warm Springs is in town … He says before long he intends to have the Warm Springs of Wyoming the Saratoga of the West.”

Source: Cheyenne Daily Leader, June 23, 1882 

 

The medicinal hot springs which the Indians used many years ago, are located here. The Indians called it "The Place of Magic Water."

Source: Christiansen 

 

Other Names: Place of Magic Water, Warm Springs

 

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History:

Saratoga Post Office was established as Warm Springs Post Office on October 4, 1878. Its name was changed to Saratoga Post Office on February 5, 1884. Wilbur B. Hugus was the postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A prosperous town in Carbon County, on the Saratoga and Encampment Railway, 21 miles south of Walcott, on the Union Pacific Railroad. Saratoga is beautifully located on the North Platte River and is the supply point for the great copper mining district located within 20 to 30 miles on the east, west and south. A good farming and stockraising country contribute to the commercial prosperity of Saratoga. Good schools, substantial business houses and neat residences. Location of the Saratoga Hot Springs.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Saratoga

 

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