42 Petrified Gardens Road, Saratoga Springs, New York. County/parish: Saratoga.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 20, 1999. NRIS 99000631.
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Petrified Sea Gardens, also once known as Ritchie Park, is a National Historic Landmark on Petrified Sea Gardens Road in Saratoga Springs, New York. It preserves a bed of ancient stromatolites in a Cambrian rock layer, which were the first to be recognized and understood for what they are. The site was a private park open to the public for many years, but is now closed. The site was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1967, and a National Historic Landmark in 1999.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316057