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).
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.
- Ensine Miller builds a house on Bloomingdale Avenue opposite the Baker Bridge.
- First Post Office established, at Baker's store.
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.
- Dr. Trudeau grows tubercle bacilli in his home laboratory.
1886 – Dr. Trudeau conducts the Rabbit Island Experiment
1887 - Rail service comes to Loon Lake from Plattsburgh, via the Chateaugay Railroad.
- Regular telephone service established; a small exchange started some years earlier by J.M. Bull was taken over by the Franklin Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Robert Louis Stevenson winters at the Baker Cottage where he writes "The Master of Ballantrae," for Scribner Magazine.
1888 - The Chateaugay Railroad reaches Saranac Lake; Francis Berger Trudeau arrives on the first train as an infant.
- First Harrietstown Town Hall built.
1890 - First High School dedicated by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.
The Saranac Laboratory, 1907
1892 - Village incorporated; Dr. Trudeau elected first village president.
- Newspaper Adirondack Pioneer established.
1894 - Saranac Laboratory completed at 7 Church Street.
- Electrical service established.
1895 - Newpaper Adirondack Enterprise established.
1896 - Architect William L. Coulter arrives in Saranac Lake.
- New Main Building at Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium is built.
- Pontiac Club established.
- Baker Chapel at Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium opens at Christmas.
1897 - First Winter Carnival.
- Adirondack National Bank founded.
1898 - First Ice Palace, designed by William L. Coulter.
1900 - Founding of Knollwood Club.
1901 - Reception Hospital is built.
- Mark Twain summers on Lower Saranac Lake. (see Mark Twain Camp)
Union Depot Postcard, 1913
1902 - First car arrives in Saranac Lake, driven by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Sackette
1904 - Union Depot built, serving the New York Central and the Delaware and Hudson
1907 - Saranac Lake Free Library Association founded.
- Saranac Lake Electric Company is sold to Paul Smith.
1908 - D. Lorne McGibbon, curing in Saranac Lake, conceives of a sanitarium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec.
- A forest fire on Mount Baker threatens the village.
1910 - The old Mill Pond is cleared of stumps and renamed Lake Flower.
- William F. Cooper, better known as Caribou Bill, establishes a silent movie set on Edgewood Road where more than a dozen movies will be made.
- Village Improvement Society is formed, with the goal of fully implementing the Olmstead Plan for the village's parks.
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 World War I
- Global Spanish Flu Pandemic kills 21 million.
1919 - First float plane lands on Lake Flower.
Ski Jumping from Maple Hill, 1899
1920 - Saranac Lake Ski Club established.
- Alfred L. Donaldson sketches Saranac Lake of 1920 in his History of the Adirondacks.
1921 - Ski Club hosts Ski Jumping and Cross-country ski competition.
1922 - U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association formed in Saranac Lake.
- St. Bernard's School founded.
1925 - New Saranac Lake High School built on Petrova Avenue
- Ed Lamy sets world barrel jump record at 27 feet, 8 inches on Lake Flower.
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.
- Al Jolson performs a three-hour benefit in Saranac Lake
1927 - The old high school is torn down and the Hotel Saranac is built on the site.
- Will Rogers Hospital is built, the last of the institutional sanatoria.
1928 - The new Harrietstown Town Hall is built.
- A 4.5 magnitude earthquake occurs at Saranac Lake, March 18.
1936 - Albert Einstein summers on Lower Saranac Lake.
Trudeau Sanatorium, 1902
1938 - A new dam is completed.
1943 - Composer 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 - 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 - 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.
- Saranac Lake Rugby Club hosts first Canadian-American Rugby Tournament.
1980 - Pendragon Theatre founded.
- Historic Saranac Lake founded.
1981 - Berkeley Hotel destroyed by fire.
2007 - Paul Smiths College sells the Hotel Saranac to Sewa Arora.
See also
Sources
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Donaldson, Alfred L. A History of the Adirondacks, New York: The Century Co., 1921 (reprinted by Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1992)
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Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 23, 2001
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Chilson, Gary, Carl George, Richard Tucker, Thomas Wheeler, "An Adirondack Chronology", Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks- 1Per Phillip L. Gallos. However, the Registration Form for the National Register of Historic Places gives the builder as Milo Miller and the year as 1876. Alfred L. Donaldson indicates that Miller held a mortgage on the property, and foreclosed on it the year after it was built, which may account for the error. Frederick Seaver gives Gray as the builder, but gives the date as 1977.
