History
In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 19, an unsigned legislative route extending from Buffalo to Batavia via the hamlets of Marilla, Wales Center, and Varysburg. When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, no designation was assigned to the portion of legislative Route 19 between Buffalo and Marilla. It remained unnumbered until the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York when it became part of NY 354, a route extending from downtown Buffalo to Wales Center via Marilla. At the time, the portion of modern NY 354 from Cowlesville to Attica was part of NY 239 while the Marilla–Cowlesville segment was unnumbered.
NY 354 was realigned c. 1935 to continue east along Clinton Street from Two Rod Road to Exchange Street, where it ended at NY 239. The former routing of NY 354 to Wales Center became part of an extended NY 358. NY 354 was extended eastward on January 1, 1949, over NY 239's alignment to a new terminus in Attica. As a result, NY 239 was truncated to its junction with NY 354 in the town of Marilla. NY 354 originally followed West Main Street in the village of Attica all the way to downtown at NY 98. Due to the presence of railroad tracks at its end, the eastern portion of West Main Street features both a sharp turn and a steep downgrade as it enters the village. A new highway bypassing this section of West Main Street, known as the "Attica–Bennington Highway", was built by 1949 as a realignment of NY 354.
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