World War One Exhibit

Exhibit panels were designed by Karen Davidson, Davidson Designs, Lake Placid.

Presented by Historic Saranac Lake in the John Black Room of the Saranac Lab, 89 Church Street, open to the public through the fall and winter by appointment.

WWI Exhibit Panels

• Introduction
  

• Plattsburg Training Camp
  

• SLHS Class of 1916
  

• SLHS Class of 1918
  

• Voices of Dissent
  

• The War Effort in Saranac Lake
  

• After the War: TB and the Flu Epidemic
  

• Caring for the Soldiers
  

• A Beloved Physician
  

• Local Memorials

Almost three hundred residents of the Saranac Lake area served in some capacity in World War I, then known as the Great War.

• World War I Veterans
  

• World War I Veterans’ Memorial Park (Veterans’ Triangle)
  

• John Black
  

• Edward Ralph Coleman
  

• Dorchester Everett
  

• Essex County's Home Welcoming Celebration
  

• Knights of Columbus veterans

World War One Parade, 1918, Main Street. Part of the Linwood Cottage shows at left, rear; the Drugs sign is at the site of the later Charlie Green's Market, presently the home of the Adirondack Artists Guild. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 28, 2005.