Lester Park - Saratoga Springs, NY, USA - New York Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

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"A natural history site of the New York State Museum
Lester Park
A 490 million year old
fossilized sea bottom
donated in memory of
Willard Lester, Esq., 1914
The State Education Department 1998"

Lester Park is the host of Petrified Sea Gardens, a National Historic Landmark. It preserves an area of fossils, called stromatolites in a Cambrian rock layer.

Stromatolites were constructed by "blue-green algae" on a shallow sea floor that is now exposed. While they were growing, New York and the eastern US lay south of the equator.

Marker Name: Lester Park Marker Type: Roadside Agency: The NY State Education Department Dedication Date: 1998 City/Town/Village Name: Saratoge Springs County: Saratoga Region: Capital-Saratoga (Region 7) Website: [Web Link]

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