Decade Table
UNDER CONSTRUCTION{
|-\n|Year||Village of Saranac Lake population||Houses in
the village||Transportation||Businesses||Services||Health|\n|-\n|1810||None: transients only||None||Foot and paddle, guideboat||None||Lakes and rivers|| |\n|-\n|1820||Jacob Smith Moody family||1 cabin||Northwest Bay Road||None|| || |\n|-\n|1830||Captain Pliny Miller and family|| || ||Sawmill|| || |\n|-\n|1840|| || || || ||School in the Pines|| |\n|-\n|1850||181, three pioneer families|| ||Stagecoaches||Pliny Miller's Hotel Martin's||2 schools|| |\n|-\n|1860||340 Milote Baker James McClelland Fifteen families in all|| || ||Baker's Hotel,
Riverside Inn
||School on the Hill
Post Office|| |\n|-\n|1870||416 Milo Miller|| || ||Milo Miller's Trading Post|| || |\n|-\n|1880||700|| || ||Berkeley House||Franklin County Library||Dr. Edward L. Trudeau|\n|-\n
1890
1892|
1,582
1,161|| |
First local steamboat|| ||Saranac Lake High School||Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium|\n|-\n
1900
1905|
3,390
3,834|| ||Chateaugay Railroad|
Adirondack National Bank, Saranac Lake National Bank|
Adirondack Enterprise|| |\n|-\n
1910
1915|
4,755/4,983
4,918|| ||Union Depot
Highway, Automobiles|| || ||Reception Hospital|\n|-\n
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, a boy's club house, a golf club,
four churches, Petrova School||General Hospital|\n|-\n|1930||8,020|| || |
WNBZ|| || |\n|-\n|1940||7,132||2,296|| || || || |\n|-\n|1950||6,913||2,713|| || || || |\n|-\n|1960||6,421||2,632|| ||AMA||Trudeau Sanatorium closed|| |\n|-\n|1970||6,086||2,296|| ||New High School||NCCC founded|| |\n|-\n|1980||5,578||2,713||NY Central freight service ends|| || || |\n|-\n|1990||5,377||2,632|| || || || |\n|-\n|2000||5,404|| || || || || |\n|-\n|2010||5,406|| || || || || |\n</tbody> |}