History
The origins of NY 126 date back to the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, when an alternate routing of NY 26 between Lowville and Carthage was designated as NY 26A. While NY 26 went directly between the two villages, NY 26A went northeast from Lowville to Croghan before turning northwest and paralleling NY 26 to Carthage, where it ended at State Street (NY 3). At the time, NY 26A also ended at NY 26, which initially passed through Carthage and Antwerp on its way from West Carthage to Theresa. In West Carthage and Carthage, NY 26 followed Bridge and State Streets, resulting in an overlap with NY 3 through eastern Carthage.
The portion of NY 26 between Carthage and Antwerp was rerouted in 1960 to follow a new alignment via Calcium, part of which used a new state highway northeast of Watertown. NY 26A may have been extended southwestward along State Street for one block to meet NY 26 as a result. NY 26 was truncated southward in the mid-1970s to the junction of State and School Streets, which had been the southern terminus of its overlap with NY 3 since 1960. In the late 1970s, NY 26A was supplanted by two new routes: NY 126, which was assigned to the Carthage–Croghan segment of NY 26A, and NY 812, which extended from Lowville to Ogdensburg via Croghan.
On August 1, 1979, the state of New York assumed ownership and maintenance of two county-maintained highways leading from West Carthage as part of a highway maintenance swap between the state and Jefferson County. One connected West Carthage to Evans Mills and became part of a re-extended NY 26; the other led from West Carthage to NY 12 in Watertown. The Watertown–West Carthage highway became part of an extended NY 126, which reached the new state highway by way of an overlap with NY 26 along North Broad Street in West Carthage and the former routing of NY 26 along Bridge and State Streets in West Carthage and Carthage.
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