SARANAC LAKE, is located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The village is named after Upper, Middle, and Lower Saranac Lakes, which are nearby. The Village of Saranac Lake covers parts of three towns (Harrietstown, St. Armand, and North Elba) and two counties, Franklin and Essex. The northern reaches of Lake Flower, which is part of the Saranac River, lie within the village. The town of Saranac is an entirely separate entity, 33 miles to the northeast. Saranac Lake lies within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park, about seven miles from Lake Placid. These two villages, along with nearby Tupper Lake, comprise what is known as the Tri-Lakes region.
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Saranac Lake Firemen in local village parade. In 1998, it was named a All-American City and is know for is location within the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. |
SARANAC LAKE VILLAGE
The area was first settled in 1819 by the Jacob Smith Moody family, from Keene, New Hampshire. Later settlers Pliny Miller and Alric Bushnell established a logging facility with a dam and sawmill in 1827, forming the basis for the Saranac Lake Village. The first school was built in 1838, and in 1849, William F. Martin built one of the first hotels in the Adirondacks— the "Saranac Lake House", knoswn simply as "Martin's"— on the southeast shore of Lower Saranac Lake. Martin's would soon become a favorite place for hunters, woodsmen, and socialites to meet and interact. In 1876 Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau arrived to treat his own tuberculosis; in 1884 he founded his first sanitarium, called "Little Red", for treatment of this disease, in which two patients were placed.
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Saranac Lake residents and visitors alike enjoy the summer season, canoeing and other forms of boating, hiking in the forest, climbing in the nearby mountains, and visiting the local shops and restaurants. |
SARANAC LAKE, A Vacation Destination
Many tourists come to the Village of Saranac Lake, which is unusually attractive owing to its setting and the preservation of unique older architecture. Summer visitors enjoy canoeing and other forms of boating, hiking in the forest, climbing in the nearby mountains, and visiting the local shops and restaurants. Camping is also a popular pastime in the Saranac Lake region (List of area's state campgrounds). During the long, cold, and snowy winters, visitors participate in cross-country and downhill skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, snowmobiling, and many other activities.
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