Decade Table

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
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