Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Springs and Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability to the former British colonies of North America. While Ballston, like many other attempts, faded into obscurity, by the early nineteenth … sociability on the periphery in the later part of the long eighteenth-century. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Colonies Cosmopolitanism Health Leisure North America Spa Travel The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century … be the United States. The eighteenth century witnessed a rash of ‘discovery’ of mineral springs by settlers in the young colonies of British North America and in time, efforts were made to render these waters useful in the eyes of British …
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