Rainbow Camp may have been an early name of the Adirondack-Florida School campus.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, August 31, 1900
—The body of the colored chef at Rainbow camp, who was drowned the evening of the Venetian entertainment on Lower Saranac was recovered on a recent Saturday. It was found in sixty feet of water. The morning after the drowning, his boat was found floating in the lake.
Plattsburgh Sentinel and Clinton County Farmer, July 24, 1903
The postponed baseball game between the teams from Rainbow Camp and Hotel Del Monte was played yesterday afternoon —score at the end of five innings, when the game was called, stood 16 to 5 in favor of the Hotelmen. Billy Sexan, of the Rainbow Camp, pitched .a clever game, and hit the ball freely. For Del Monte, the batting and field of Mr. B. Smith done [sic] much to win the game.
Chateaugay Journal, August 20, 1903
A Saranac Lake dispatch says: Two young .boys both received -bad gunshot wounds on Tuesday, the result of careless handling of fire arms...
The other accident happened near the club house on Upper Saranac Lake. William Campbell, of New York City, who has been staying at the Rainbow Camp for several weeks, had gone up the lake in a canoe, taking a shot gun along with him. The gun lay in the bottom of the bout, and in reaching to pick it up Campbell accidentally discharged it, receiving the whole charge of the buckshot in the right hand, badly shattering it. Amputation may be necessary in case blood poisoning set in.
Malone Farmer, November 22, 1905
Branch & Callanan, of Saranac Lake, have the contract for the erection of a three-story building and basement for Prof. Paul C. Ransom's school for boys at Rainbow Lake, at a cost of $15,000. The construction will begin immediately, as the building is to be completed by June 1st. The Rainbow camp of Prof. Ransom is also to include about a dozen rustic cabins. The main part of the three-story building will be 28 by 50 feet, and there will be a wing 30 by 50, at the end of which will be a study room 16 by 20 feet on the ground floor. The structure will include a living room and guests' rooms and will be of shingle exterior. The school will be conducted at Rainbow in the summer and in Florida during the winter.
