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Planted by: Mookie Fish
Name of box: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Date planted: September 3, 2003
Town: Saratoga Springs
County: Saratoga
State: New York
Level of difficulty: Easy, sidewalks
Time: An hour

Directions: From I-87, take exit 14. Take NY-9P/UNION AVE heading East. Turn
right onto Circular, then left onto Spring Street. At the stoplight, take a
left onto Broadway, then another left into the park.

Begin your quest with Congress Spring
A water bottle you should bring
To taste Saratogas famous healing waters
Or to carry along if you get hotter.
Now hop over to Columbian Spring
(From this, ordinary city water is flowing.)
Head into the park to find where Deer Park Spring dips
Where once General George Washington put his lips.
(Alexander Hamilton drank here as well.)
Now head around the park for a spell.
Pass by the duck pond but feed them not,
Or a $50 fine will make you hot.
Morrisey Fountain is your next stop.
Go to the brick building, then take a hop.
Myth says the flow was a signal when gambling,
(an illegal venture in the old casino) was happening.
Now walk towards the place of the musical sound
its an historical wooden carved merry-go-round.
Across Spring Street you will head
To Hathorn Spring which is fed
with highly mineralized, diuretic liquid.
Doesnt it taste a bit like old squid?
Its because salty waters from ancient seas were trapped
in limestone layers which solid shale then capped.
Minerals from the limestone dissolve
Giving the water its unique resolve.
Continue north, disregard the strange looks,
past the public building full of books.
Continue down maple as long as you are able.
When you come the building where reporters do write
Go to the curb and look to your right.
Its the Farmers Market sign that you seek
But crossing Lake Ave. is not for the meek.
Follow to where the market sign points.
After the parking lot you can rest your joints.
If the Farmers Market is here, it will be quite busy.
Beyond this, Governor Spring tastes of iron and is natural fizzy.
Its friend, Peerless Spring, is palatable and mild
Mohawk Indians drank here when this place was still wild.
Venture further north still, past the renovated mills.
Old Red Spring was discovered soon after the Revolutionary War.
It boasted one of the first bathhouses about 1784.
It is also known as the Spring of Beauty,
because healing disorders of the skin was its duty.
The spring got its name from the iron deposits
which form when the mineral-laden spring water sits.
Retrace your steps past the buildings of brick.
(Plug your nose if the sewer pumping station makes you sick.)
After the last mill, look for the black metal fence.
Trudge up the walkway, which makes your legs tense.
The Old Bryan Inn was erected in 1832, no doubt
on the site of a log cabin of a revolutionary scout.
At the sign for High Rock Park,
Follow the metal chains down into the dark.
To get to the rock ledge on the left
Give the chains a great big heft.
Look for the box in the fissures of the fault line.
If you hungry, continue to the Farmers Market to dine.