The Narrows is a one-mile long, one thousand-foot wide channel between the northern and southern parts of Upper Saranac Lake.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 21, 1956
BUY 250 ACRES ON UPPER LAKE Another (substantial land purchase for, recreational development has been made in the area. Ives Turner, Saranac Lake surveyor and civil engineer of 199 Lake street, and M. L. Dickinson, Lake Placid Shores developer, have purchased about 250 acres of land on Upper Saranac Lake, it became known today.
The property has been bought from B. D. S. Blagden and includes about 8,300 feet, of water front land. It is located on the eastern shore of the Upper Lake and extends from Birch Point northerly through the Narrows to the State land at Saginaw Point.
Mr. Turner will be president of the corporation which is to be formed.
No commercial activities will be permitted on the property, the two purchasers said. They added that. the area is to be developed for large hunting sites and waterfront camp lots.
No decision has yet been made as to the size of the lots to be sold.
