[5] Edinburg is located within the Adirondack Park on the shores of Great Sacandaga Lake in northwestern Saratoga County.

Abijah Stark came with his family from Coleraine, Massachusetts and settled north of Fish House near the Providence town line.

Settlement on the west side of the river near Beecher's Hollow started in the early 1790s with the Sumner, Barker, Deming, and Partridge families.

Batchellerville on the east side started in the late 1790s and early 1800s with the Noyes, Gordon, Batcheller and DeGolia families.

During this meeting, several laws were established, including raising $50.00 to support the town's poor and allowing hogs to roam freely.

In a town meeting held in 1802, it was decided that hogs could still roam freely but must wear a sturdy collar called a "yoak".

In February 1825, there was a special meeting, and it was voted unanimously that "we do not wish to comply with the Acts of the Legislature for the erection of a county poor house."

Industry prospered until early in the 1880s when several fires destroyed many of the mills and about one-third of the population moved elsewhere to seek jobs.

On March 27, 1930, the gates on the Conklingville Dam were closed and by 1931 the valley and surrounding communities on the banks of the river were displaced as the Sacandaga Reservoir was created.

Today the shores of the reservoir, renamed The Great Sacandaga Lake in the 1960's, are dotted with hundreds of seasonal homes.