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4 unusual facts about Saranac Lake


1947 Philadelphia Eagles season

The Eagles for the 2nd year went to Saranac High School Field / Eagles Residence, in Saranac Lake, New York to hold training camp.

Rosalind Russell

Against parental objections, she took a job at a stock company for seven months at Saranac Lake and then Hartford, Connecticut.

The Black Atlantic

In February, 2008, The Black Atlantic started recording their album in a cabin owned by van der Veldeā€™s in-laws, located in the small town of Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

The Fossil Hunters

The word "Sheldrake," incised on rock above the old man, names a town on the west side of Saranac Lake where the young Dickinson spent summers exploring the glens near the family's summer cottage, where he hunted for fossils and to which he returned periodically as an adult to visit.


Chuck Pandolph

A native of Saranac Lake, New York, Pandolph also competed in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth in the four-man event at Innsbruck in 1964.

Crater Club

Early members purchased lots from Burnham then built simple cottages that deliberately eschewed the luxuries and decorative excesses of Adirondack "Great Camps" such as those designed by William Coulter of Saranac Lake.

George W. Brush

As chairman of the Senate Health Committee he helped establish the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Saranac Lake.

Henry Homburger

A civil engineer by profession, Homburger was also responsible for the design of the bobsleigh track used for those Winter Olympics; he also did engineering work for Saranac Lake architect William G. Distin in the design of the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid.

John Gerrish

After the death of his first wife, Marion Benham of Saranac Lake, he married Claire Stackpole of Winooski.

Martha Reben

When she, too, became ill she was sent to cure in Pennsylvania, the Catskills and finally, in 1927, to Saranac Lake, New York where Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau was having considerable success treating the disease.

Roger Tubby

Subsequently, in partnership with Jim James Loeb bought the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Adirondack Park's only daily newspaper based in Saranac Lake, where he was co-publisher-editor, jack-of-all-trades, and became president of the Adirondack Park Association, an association that covers all the communities of about a fifth of New York State, in the northeast corner; and advisor to the Governor on natural resources and conservation.

WFFF-DT2

Before it was officially confirmed it would be a secondary CW affiliate, there was a possibility new television station WCWF (now WNMN) in Saranac Lake, New York would become affiliated with the network.

WGMU-LP

Locally owned by CEC Media Group, it is a full-time satellite of Retro TV affiliate WNMN in Saranac Lake, New York.


see also

John E. Winkler

Other regions include the Three Ponds / Silver Lake Wilderness Area, Hudson River Gorge, Moose River Plains, Indian Lake area, regions north west of Saranac Lake, Whitney landholdings and Piseco Lake region and more.

Welles House

Larom-Welles Cottage, Saranac Lake, New York, listed on the NRHP in Franklin County