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Saranac Lake

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Saranac Lake, village (1990 pop. 5,377), Essex and Franklin counties, N N.Y., in the Adirondacks; settled c.1819 as a lumbering town, inc. 1892. It is a year-round resort community; tourism is the main industry. It developed as a health center after Edward L. Trudeau founded a tuberculosis sanatorium (closed in 1954) there in 1884. The village has noted skiing facilities.


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We selected 6 US communities that reported relatively few, if any, cases of influenza and no more than 1 influenza-related death while NPIs were enforced during the second wave of the 1918 pandemic: San Francisco Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, California; Gunnison, Colorado; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, New York; and Fletcher, Vermont (Table).
Situated on a 10-acre peninsula in Upper Saranac Lake, New York, The Point, originally built as the summer home of William Avery Rockefeller in 1929, is a five-star ultra exclusive boutique hotel that combines rustic elegance, highly personalized service, with Adirondack wilderness.
When Doyle assumed the helm of the 2,000-student Saranac Lake district in the Adirondacks three years later, he inherited a district comprised of schools with K-I, 2-5, 6-8 and 9-12 grade spans.
 
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