Kayaderosseras
{{distinguish|Kayaderosseras Creek (Mohawk River tributary)}}
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| image = KayaderosserasCreekApril2012.jpg
| image_caption = Kayaderosseras Creek looking downstream from US Route 9, April 2012
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| subdivision_name2 = New York
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| subdivision_name3 = Upstate New York
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| subdivision_name4 = Capital District
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| subdivision_name5 = Saratoga County
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| source1_location = Corinth, Saratoga County, New York
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|43|12|00|N|73|55|17|W|display=inline}}{{cite GNIS|954412|Kayaderosseras Creek|April 28, 2016}}
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| mouth = Saratoga Lake
| mouth_location = Saratoga Springs/Malta, Saratoga County, New York
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| river_system = Hudson River Watershed
| basin_size_mi2 = 195
| tributaries_left = Mud Creek, Vly Creek, Star Brook, Geyser Brook, Bog Meadow Brook
| tributaries_right = South Branch Kayaderosseras, Crook Brook, Glowgee Creek, Gordon Creek, Mourning Kill
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The Kayaderosseras Creek, usually shortened to Kaydeross, is the largest river that lies completely within Saratoga County, New York State. It originates in the Kayaderosseras Range in the northern part of the county, passes through the towns of Corinth, Greenfield, and Milton, and serves as the boundary between the City of Saratoga Springs and the Town of Malta before emptying into Saratoga Lake.
History
The Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Five Nations used the associated valley as a summer hunting and fishing destination. In Arthur James Johnson's History of Round Lake, N.Y., the name Kayaderosseras is described as an "Indian name" purchased by the colony of New York from the Mohicans. However, James goes on to claim that the word is "evidently a corruption by mispronunciation of two French terms: pays arrosé, a watered country, or pays des ruisseaux, a
country of streams.{{cite book|last=Weise|first=Arthur James|title=History of Round Lake, Saratoga County, N.Y.|year=1887|publisher=Douglas Taylor|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofroundla00weis}}{{rp|p.10}}
Image:Empire Mill Rock City Falls NY.jpg
The creek is best known for providing water power to a host of paper mills and a hard edge-tool factory in the 19th century. "Paper Bag King" George West established his paper bag empire on the banks of the Kayaderosseras Creek in Rock City Falls in 1862. Of the dozen paper mills situated along the creek in the late 19th century, only the Cottrell Paper Company is still in operation as of 2024.{{cite book |author=Starr, Timothy |title=The Lost Industries of the Kaydeross Valley: A History of Manufacturing in Ballston Spa, New York |publisher=Instant Pub. |date=2007}}
From 1898 to 1929, the {{convert|12|mile|km|adj=on}} Kaydeross Railroad, or Ballston Terminal Railroad, a trolley railroad line, closely followed the banks of the creek to serve the paper mills and Isaiah Blood's tool factory. Although this line also carried passengers, it mainly existed to carry freight.
Over-logging caused the flow of the creek to decrease dramatically in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today the creek possesses several popular fishing spots, especially in Rock City Falls, Milton Center, and Craneville. The principal fish is the brown trout, which is stocked.{{cite web|title=Fly Fishing Kayaderosseras Creek New York|url=http://perfectflystore.com/wkayaderosserasc.html|website=Perfect Fly|access-date=Sep 16, 2016}}
Gallery
Image:Kaydeross_MinerRoad.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek crossing Miner Road in Corinth NY, near its source
Image:Kayaderosseras Creek at Howe Road.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek crossing Howe Road in Corinth NY
Image:Kayaderosseras Creek at Spier Falls Road.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek Crossing Spier Falls Road in Greenfield NY
Image:Kayaderosseras Creek at Ballston Spa NY.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek at the former Union Mill complex in Ballston Spa, NY
Image:Kayaderosseras Creek Below Ballston Spa.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek below Ballston Spa crossed by railroad trestle
Image:The Mourning Kill joins the Karaderosseras.jpg|Confluence of the Mourning Kill with the Kayaderosseras Creek in Malta, NY
Image:Kaydeross Creek in the Arrowhead Casino Prehistoric Site.jpg|Kayaderosseras Creek near its mouth
Image:Mouth of Kaydeross Creek at Saratoga Lake.jpg|Mouth of Kayaderosseras Creek at Saratoga Lake
References
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- The Ballston Terminal Railroad And Its Successors, 2007
External links
- [http://kayadeross.org/ Friends of the Kayaderosseras]
- [http://www.ballstonhistory.com Ballston Spa History - Industries and Railroads]
- [https://www.townofmiltonny.org Town of Milton, N.Y.]
- [https://www.skidmore.edu/wri/documents/taff.pdf Taff, Conor. "Geologic History of the Kayaderosseras Watershed"]
- [https://www.saratogaplan.org/conserve/landowner-stories/bob-barbara-thomas Kayaderosseras Creek Preserve]
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