Decade Table
Appearance
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
| Year | Village of Saranac Lake population | Houses in the village |
Transportation | Businesses | Services | Health |
| 1810 | None: transients only | None | Foot and paddle, guideboat | None | Lakes and rivers | |
| 1820 | Jacob Smith Moody family | 1 cabin | Northwest Bay Road | None | ||
| 1830 | Captain Pliny Miller and family | Sawmill | ||||
| 1840 | School in the Pines | |||||
| 1850 | 181 | three pioneer families | Stagecoaches | Pliny Miller's Hotel, Martin's | 2 schools | |
| 1860 | 340 Milote Baker, James McClelland Fifteen families in all | Baker's Hotel, Riverside Inn |
School on the Hill Post Office |
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| 1870 | 416Milo Miller | Milo Miller's Trading Post | ||||
| 1880 | 700 | Berkeley House | Franklin County Library | Dr. Edward L. Trudeau | ||
| 1890 1892 |
1,582 1,161 |
First local steamboat | Saranac Lake High School | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium | ||
| 1900 1905 |
3,390 3,834 |
Chateaugay Railroad | Adirondack National Bank, Saranac Lake National Bank | Electicity | Adirondack Enterprise | |
| 1910 1915 |
4,755/4,983 4,918 |
Union Depot Highway,Automobiles |
Reception Hospital | |||
| 1920 1925 |
5,174 6579 |
753 private residences | Paved streets, New York Route 30 |
13 hotels, 1 large apartment house, 85 boarding houses, 30 or 40 liveries renting cars, several large garages, 75 stores, Colonial and Pontiac Theatres | a telephone exchange three Saranac Lake Schools, Saranac Lake Free Library, two national banks, a boy's club house, a golf club, four churches, Petrova School |
General Hospital |
| 1930 | 8,020 | Hotel Saranac | WNBZ | |||
| 1940 | 7,132 | 2,296 | 1946 - The antibiotic streptomycin made cure of TB a reality | |||
| 1950 | 6,913 | 2,713 | Trudeau Sanatorium closed, 1954 | |||
| 1960 | 6,421 | 2,632 | Railroad passenger service ended in 1965. | AMA | ||
| 1970 | 6,086 | 2,296 | New High School | NCCC founded | ||
| 1980 | 5,578 | 2,713 | NY Central freight service ends | |||
| 1990 | 5,377 | 2,632 | ||||
| 2000 | 5,404 | |||||
| 2010 | 5,406 |