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LAKE PLACID, the Olympic Village in the heart of
the Adirondack Mountains of New York, named after this adjacent lake. While
it is a year-round resort, it
is likely most known as the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, and particularly the USA-USSR
hockey game, the "Miracle on Ice,". Lake Placid also hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. It was the first location in North America to host two
Winter Olympic games. Along with St. Moritz, Switzerland
and Innsbruck, Austria, it is one of the three places
to have twice hosted the Winter Olympic Games
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Lake Placid was the headquarters for the International Olympic
Committee which brought the 1932 and the 1980 Winter
Olympics. The village was the
first location in North America to host two Winter
Olympic games. |
The Village of Lake Placid was founded in the early
1800s to develop a mining operation based on iron ore
discovered nearby. By 1840, the population of "North
Elba" (as the village was then known)
consisted of 6 families.
LAKE PLACID, A YEAR ROUND VACATION DESTINATION
As leisure time increased in the late 19th century, Lake Placid was discovered by the rich and famous, drawn
to the fashionable Lake Placid Club. Melvil Dewey, inventor
of the Dewey Decimal System, designed what was then
called "Placid Park Club" in 1895 and inspired
a village name change, to Lake Placid. He is also sometimes
credited with introducing recreational winter sports
such as skiing and bobsledding to the United States,
or at least helping to popularize them. The Lake Placid
Club was also the headquarters for the International
Olympic Committee which brought the 1932 and the 1980
Winter
Olympics. Lake Placid later became
an incorporated village in 1900.
There is no 30 foot crocodile in Lake Placid, the lake. Lake Placid (film), the 1999 movie, was filmed
mainly in the town of Shawnigan Lake, BC, Canada, which
was pretending to be in Maine.
Also See: Lake
Placid WInter Olympics
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation
License. It uses material from the Wikipedia articles
"Adirondacks"
& "Lake
Placid"
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