Stillwater is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States, with a population of 8,287 at the 2010 census. The town contains a village called Stillwater. The town is at the eastern attach of the county, southeast of Saratoga Springs and borders both Rensselaer and Washington counties. Saratoga National Historical Park is located within the town’s limits. There is a hamlet in Minerva, Essex County, New York, with the same name which has nothing to realize with this town.

The area was occupied by Iroquois and Mohican natives in the look of the colonial become old began. In 1709, Peter Schuyler built Fort Ingoldsby in town because of its location upon the frontier of the French and Indian Wars. A replica of Schuyler’s fort currently serves as the Stillwater Blockhouse Museum. Settlers began arriving after 1730. During the American Revolution residents participated in the war, and allowance of the Battle of Saratoga was fought in the town for that reason that the town now refers to itself as the turning lessening of the American Revolution.

Stillwater was normal as a town in 1791, when Saratoga County was formed. In 1816, the hamlet of Stillwater incorporated as a village. In 1859, Mechanicville became the town’s second village. The Stillwater Free Library was normal in 1949 by Barbara Alexik and Elizabeth Beiter in the building formerly home to the St. John’s Episcopal Church. The Stillwater United Church was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 43.6 square miles (112.8 km), of which 41.4 square miles (107.1 km²) is home and 2.2 square miles (5.7 km) (5.07%) is water.