History
The section of what is now NY 211 from North Street (now NY 17M) in Middletown to Montgomery was originally designated as part of NY 8 when the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924. NY 8 continued south from Middletown to the New Jersey state line at Unionville on modern NY 284 and east from Montgomery to Newburgh on current NY 17K. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the portion of NY 8 southwest of Montgomery was renumbered to NY 84 while a previously unnumbered highway between Cuddebackville and NY 17 (modern NY 17K) in Middletown was designated as NY 211. The NY 84 designation was removed in the mid-1960s to eliminate numerical duplication with the under-construction Interstate 84. Its former routing from Middletown to Montgomery became an eastward extension of NY 211.
The westernmost portion, according to a historical marker in Cuddebackville, follows the old Mount Hope and Lumberland Turnpike, built during the War of 1812.
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