Historic Saranac Lake operates this online archive of local history. Started in December, 2008, this project has grown to almost eight thousand pages. You can create an account and add your knowledge by clicking on the "Edit" button to get started, or add a Comment at the bottom of the page. You can add new articles or make additions to existing ones. Search for any term in the search box at top right of every page. This site is monitored by Historic Saranac Lake staff and volunteers.
About Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake is a village of five thousand, located near the center of the Adirondacks. This wiki covers the neighboring communities that make up the Saranac Lake Central School District. These communities share much of the history of the "outdoor life" of the region for both work and recreation, going back to the early nineteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, Saranac Lake became an internationally known center for treating tuberculosis, a contagious disease that afflicted people in the prime of life, and killed many of those who contracted it. That history profoundly affected the village and its surrounding area, from its architecture to the astonishing variety of people who were drawn here in hope of a cure, many of whom stayed on. For a time it was also a center for winter sports, hosting international competitions well before nearby Lake Placid hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. See also: A History of Saranac Lake and Saranac Lake Timeline.
Contents
Solid underlines represent links to articles. Titles in bold face have more substantial content. Titles underlined with a dashed line like this do not yet exist.
Major pages: Streets, Area History, Time Line, About HSL Wiki
Jump to Buildings, Business Organizations, Community Organizations, Family Reminiscences, People, Places, Transportation
Activities
- Boating and Boat Building
- Bootlegging
- Camping
- Cousining
- Curing
- Ice Harvesting
- Lumbering
- Silent Films
- Scouting
- Sports
- Winter Carnival
Buildings
- Banks
- Churches
- Cure Cottages
- Great Camps
- Hotels
- Hospitals
- Libraries
- Mills
- Restaurants, Nightclubs and Speakeasies
- Properties on the National Register of Historic Places
- Sanatoria
- Schools
- Sports Venues
- Theatres
Business Organizations
- Architectural firms
- Banks
- Commercial Private Sanatoria
- Clothing Stores
- Dairies
- Electric Companies
- Farms
- Grocery Stores
- Hotels
- Laundries
- Libraries
- Liveries
- Manufacturers
- Masons
- Mills
- Newspapers
- Pharmacies
- Plumbers
- Presses
- Radio Stations
- Railroads
- Roadside Attractions
- Sanatoria
- Theatres
Community Organizations
Family Scrapbooks, Albums and Reminiscences
People
Places
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Historic Carries (Portages)
Historic Saranac Lake frequently receives queries regarding local history. Do you have any answers to the questions below? Please feel free to add what you know in the comment box, or email [email protected] with your knowledge or your own question.
• 12/30/2013 These photographs were sent to us by Michael Specht, son of Malcolm A. Specht, who camped on the north shore of Pope Bay in Lower Saranac Lake from 1939 to about 1960. Please contact us if you can identify this gentleman.
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Historic Adirondack Camps (Private)
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Most people on the wiki appear on this list
Events
Transportation
See also
For more panoramic photographs of Saranac Lake, see Saranac Lake Village
Historic Saranac Lake, 89 Church Street, Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Comments
2013-03-30 20:10:40 I am a childhood friend of Irene La Pan Peck, we have lost contact over the years. I'm trying to locate my best friend I last spoke to her in New England. Elizabeth Levensky ( Iskyan). [email protected] —Elizabethlevensky
2013-03-30 20:33:43 I'm afraid all I can find is a 1981 news story indicating that she had moved from New Hampshire to Salado, Texas. Good luck! —Mwanner
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