History
Military Road was built by the Army during the War of 1812 to connect Buffalo with the encampments up at Fort Niagara. The surviving portions of that route are those that still carry the name. NY 265, meanwhile, was assigned c. 1936 to the portion of its modern alignment south of Tonawanda. It was extended northward along NY 384 and Military Road to its current northern terminus near Lewiston in the early 1940s.
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