Decade Table
Appearance
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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%20Lake%20Schools, Saranac Lake Free Library, two national banks, [[Saranac Lake Boys' Club|a [[boy's club|boy's club house, a golf club,
four churches, Petrova School||General Hospital|
| 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|Pliny Miller's Hotel Martin's | 2 schools | ||
| 1860 | 340 [[Milote Baker|Milote Baker James McClelland Fifteen families in all | Baker's Hotel, Riverside Inn |
School on the Hill Post Office |
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| 1870 | 416 Milo Miller | Milo Miller's Trading Post | ||||
| 1880 | 700 | Berkeley House | Franklin County Library | Dr. Edward L. Trudeau| | ||
| 1930 | 8,020 |
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| 1940 | 7,132 | 2,296 | ||||
| 1950 | 6,913 | 2,713 | ||||
| 1960 | 6,421 | 2,632 | AMA | Trudeau Sanatorium closed | ||
| 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 |