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Saranac Lake Time Line

1819 - Jacob Smith Moody settles in Saranac Lake.

1822 - Captain Pliny Miller and family arrive.

1827 - Captain Pliny Miller has built a dam for water power and a sawmill on the Saranac River, creating the Mill Pond (later called Lake Flower).

Martin's Hotel.jpgMartin's Hotel

1838 - The first school in the village, the School in the Pines, is established; Mary A. Miller is the first teacher.

1840 - The first hotel is built across the street from Pliny Miller's sawmill.

1841 - Town of Harrietstown formed, Pliny Miller elected supervisor.

1843 - The second school is built, in the center of town.

1849 - William F. Martin establishes Martin's on the shore of Lower Saranac Lake.

1852 - Colonel Milote Baker buys a lot from Gerrit Smith on which he builds a small hotel.

1854 - The village school is moved to Lake Street, where it becomes known as the School on the Hill.

1856 - There are fifteen families living in the region, in settlements near the Moodys, the Bakers, and the Millers.

1861 - First use of "Saranac Lake" as the postmark for the village, having previously been just "Saranac".

1865 - Milo Miller returns from the Civil War and builds a trading post.

1867 - Milo Miller's trading post burns down; he builds another at 44 Main Street.

1873 - Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau comes to Paul Smith's Hotel as an invalid, having been diagnosed with tuberculosis the previous year.

1875 - Charles F. Gray builds the Berkeley House. 1

1876 - Population reaches 700

1876 - Milo Miller builds the structure that is used as the library in 1881; later it becomes the Post Office Pharmacy.

1877 - William F. Martin launches the first steam powered boat, the "Water Lily", on Lower Saranac Lake; John Phillip Sousa's band plays on board all summer.

1878 - Saranac Lake's first church is built, Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician.

1882 – Dr. Robert Koch, of Germany, publicizes his research findings that TB is caused by a bacterium.

1883 - Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau's home and office is built at 105 Main Street.

1884 - The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium is founded, with the construction of Little Red, the first cure cottage.

1885 – The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium opens, consisting of an administration building and three small cottages.

1886 – Dr. Trudeau conducts the Rabbit Island Experiment

1887 - Rail service comes to Loon Lake from Plattsburgh, via the Chateaugay Railroad.

1887-1888 - [wikipedia]Robert Louis Stevenson winters at the Baker Cottage where he writes "The Master of Ballantrae," for [wikipedia]Scribner Magazine.

1888 - The Chateaugay Railroad reaches Saranac Lake; Francis Berger Trudeau arrives on the first train as an infant.

1890 - First High School dedicated by U.S. President [wikipedia]Benjamin Harrison.

The Saranac Laboratory.jpgThe Saranac Laboratory, 1907

1892 - Village incorporated; Dr. Trudeau elected first village president.

1894 - Saranac Laboratory completed at 7 Church Street.

1895 - Newpaper Adirondack Enterprise established.

1896 - Architect William L. Coulter arrives in Saranac Lake.

1897 - First Winter Carnival.

1898 - First Ice Palace, designed by William L. Coulter.

1900 - Founding of Knollwood Club.

1901 - Reception Hospital is built.

Union Depot postcard - 1913.jpgUnion Depot Postcard, 1913

1902 - First car arrives in Saranac Lake, driven by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Sackette

1904 - Union Depot built, serving the [wikipedia]New York Central and the [wikipedia]Delaware and Hudson

1907 - Saranac Lake Free Library Association founded.

1908 - D. Lorne McGibbon, curing in Saranac Lake, conceives of a sanitarium in [wikipedia]Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec.

1910 - The old Mill Pond is cleared of stumps and renamed [wikipedia]Lake Flower.

1911 - The Saranac Lake General Hospital founded on Winona Avenue.

1912 - George Gray flies a biplane from Malone to Saranac Lake.

1915 - Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau dies; the sanitarium is renamed "Trudeau Sanatorium" in his honor.

1918 - American troops enter [wikipedia]World War I

1919 - First float plane lands on Lake Flower.

Ski Jumping.jpgSki Jumping from Maple Hill, 1899

1920 - Saranac Lake Ski Club established.

1921 - Ski Club hosts Ski Jumping and Cross-country ski competition.

1922 - U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association formed in Saranac Lake.

1925 - New Saranac Lake High School built on Petrova Avenue

1926 - Harrietstown Town Hall burns down, destroying the offices and archives of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

1927 - The first radio station, WNBZ 1240 Radio, begins broadcasting.

1927 - The old high school is torn down and the Hotel Saranac is built on the site.

1928 - The new Harrietstown Town Hall is built.

1936 - Albert Einstein summers on Lower Saranac Lake.

Trudeau Sanatorium.jpgTrudeau Sanatorium, 1902

1938 - A new dam is completed.

1943 - Composer [wikipedia]Béla Bartók summers in Saranac Lake.

1954 - Trudeau Sanatorium closes.

1957 - The American Management Association purchases the Trudeau Sanatorium property.

1961 - Hotel Saranac bought by Paul Smiths College

1962 - First Annual Willard Hanmer Guideboat Race.

1963 - Lake Colby State Environmental Education Center opens.

1964 - [wikipedia]Trudeau Institute opens on the site of the old Hotel Algonquin. Experiments underway at the Saranac Laboratory are moved to the new Trudeau Institute, and the old building is donated to Paul Smith's College.

1965 - Last passenger train to Saranac Lake. Union Depot closed.

1967 - The Saranac Lake General Hospital moves to its new location between Upper Broadway and Old Lake Colby Road.

1968 - [wikipedia]North Country Community College opens in the former Saranac Lake General Hospital building.

1972 - New York Central freight service ended.

1975 - Will Rogers Hospital closes.

1980 - Pendragon Theatre founded.

1981 - Berkeley Hotel destroyed by fire.

2007 - Paul Smiths College sells the Hotel Saranac to Sewa Arora.

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