Lake Placid

Lake Placid
a town in NE New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: resort. 2490.

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Village (pop., 2000: 2,638), northeastern New York, U.S., on Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains.

The site was settled in 1800, but it was abandoned after crop failures. Resettled during the 1840s, it was promoted in 1850 as a summer resort, and Melvil Dewey founded the Lake Placid Club there in 1895. It is a year-round recreation area with numerous hotels, golf courses, ski resorts, and mountain scenery. It was the scene of the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980.

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      village in North Elba town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S. It lies on Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, at the foot of Whiteface Mountain (4,867 feet [1,483 metres]), in the Adirondack Mountains. The site was settled in 1800 but was abandoned after crop failures. Resettled during the 1840s, it was promoted in 1850 as a summer resort, and Melvil Dewey (Dewey, Melvil) (creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for libraries) founded the exclusive Lake Placid Club there in 1895.

      Numerous hotels, golf courses, ski resorts, a bobsled run (on Mount Van Hoevenberg), and the surrounding forest and mountain scenery (including Mount Marcy (Marcy, Mount), at 5,344 feet [1,629 metres], the state's highest peak) form the basis of a year-round tourist economy. The town's Olympic Arena was built for the 1932 Olympic Winter Games (Olympic Games), and the Lussi Convention Center was added alongside it in 1968; these buildings adjoin the Fieldhouse, built for use during the 1980 Winter Games, and this complex is now called the Olympic Center. The farm and grave of Abolitionist John Brown (Brown, John) is 3 miles (5 km) south. Inc. 1900. Pop. (1990) 2,485; (2000) 2,638.

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