UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Year Village of Saranac Lake population Houses in
the village		 Transportation Businesses Services Health
1810 None: transients only None Foot and paddle, guideboat None Lakes and rivers  
1820 Jacob Smith Moody family 1 cabin Northwest Bay Road None    
1830 Captain Pliny Miller and family     Sawmill    
1840         School in the Pines  
1850 181, three pioneer families   Stagecoaches Pliny Miller's Hotel Martin's 2 schools  
1860 340 Milote Baker James McClelland Fifteen families in all     Baker's Hotel,
Riverside Inn
 		 School on the Hill
Post Office		  
1870 416 Milo Miller     Milo Miller's Trading Post    
1880 700     Berkeley House Franklin County Library Dr. Edward L. Trudeau

1890

1892

1,582

1,161

  

First local steamboat

   Saranac Lake High School Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium

1900

 

1905

3,390

 

3,834

   Chateaugay Railroad

Adirondack National Bank, Saranac Lake National Bank

Electicity

Adirondack Enterprise

  

1910

1915

4,755/4,983

4,918

   Union Depot,
Sara-Placid Highway, Automobiles		     Reception Hospital

1920

 

 

1925

 

5,174

 

 

6579

 753 private residences Paved streets,
New York Route 30		 13 hotels, 1 large apartment house, 85 boarding houses, 30 or 40 liveries renting cars, several large garages, 75 stores, Colonial and Pontiac Theatres a telephone exchange three Saranac%20Lake%20Schools, Saranac Lake Free Library, two national banks, a boy's club house, a golf club,
four churches, Petrova School		 General Hospital
1930 8,020    

Hotel Saranac

WNBZ

    
1940 7,132 2,296        
1950 6,913 2,713        
1960 6,421 2,632   AMA Trudeau Sanatorium closed  
1970 6,086 2,296   New High School NCCC founded  
1980 5,578 2,713 NY Central freight service ends      
1990 5,377 2,632        
2000 5,404          
2010 5,406          

 

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