According to our most trustworthy current source (JIMAPCO, Clifton Park, NY) there is a Woods Hollow Rd. formed at the intersection of Lansing Road and Broadalbin Cemetery Road just outside the northwest corner of the Village of Broadalbin. There is also a Woods Hollow Bay at the very southwest corner of the Great Sacandaga Lake which would imply that whatever Woods Hollow was in terms of a settlement, it has now at the bottom of the reservoir since the valley was flooded to form the reservoir in 1930. Bill Carr Ballston Lake Saratoga County ---------- From: William Ringle <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Woods Hollow & Al Smith Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:43 AM Can anyone suggest where I might find: -- The location, in 1854, of Wood -- or maybe Wood's or Woods -- Hollow? Evidently it was a community near Gloversville because a contemporary book and news accounts said a suspect in a crime, captured there in 1854, was brought to Gloversville for arraignment. I tried the NYS Committee on Geographic names. No dice. I looked on modern topographic maps (in the DeLorme book; I don't have the more detailed government ones). I intend to try the U. S. Commission on Geographic Names, but I figured if N. Y. doesn't have it, they probably won't. -- A speech or an essay by Gov. Al Smith called "Why Arietta?" He used Arietta, a sparsely populated Adirondack town, to question why such places all had to have town governments. My authority for this was former Lt. Gov. (under Dewey) and Comptroller Frank C. Moore who was a great enthusiast for town government. Moore mentioned it in a speech about 50 years ago but I've never been able to find the Al Smith original. Thanks in advance, William RIngle