History
The origins of NY 41A date back to November 29, 1901, when the state of New York awarded a contract to improve a 1-mile (1.6 km) segment of modern NY 41A south of the village of Skaneateles to state highway standards. The rebuilt road was added to the state highway system on December 23, 1902, as unsigned State Highway 48 (SH 48). A later contract, let on July 10, 1906, reconstructed the mile of road directly south of SH 48, while another named on November 10 of that year focused on the 0.5-mile (0.80 km) stretch leading south from the Skaneateles village line and the section of road between the south end of the July project's scope and Mandana. The highway improved by the former was accepted into the state highway system on December 8, 1909, as SH 292; the latter was included on December 13, 1908, as SH 486.
On January 30, 1914, the state awarded a contract to rebuild two highways leading away from SH 486 in Mandana, one heading generally southwestward for 1.7 miles (2.7 km) and another traveling southeast to the Cayuga–Onondaga county line. Both were added to the state highway system on June 18, 1915, as SH 1068. In 1924, the southwestern leg of SH 1068 became part of NY 26, an Ithaca–Syracuse route which continued north to Skaneateles by way of SH 486, SH 292, and SH 48. The southeast leg of SH 1068 did not receive a posted route number as it did not connect to any state roads at its south end. Over the course of the next few years, however, the state turned the stub into a connecting route by acquiring a highway running from the county line southeast to New Hope by 1926 and a series of roads linking New Hope, Sempronius, and Como to NY 70 (now NY 41) in Homer by 1929.
In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, several existing routes were reconfigured and hundreds of previously unsigned state highways were given posted designations for the first time. The NY 26 designation was reassigned to another road in east-central New York, leaving the highway's former routing to be included in parts of other routes. From Mandana to Skaneateles, old NY 26 became the northernmost part of NY 41A, a new highway continuing southeast to Homer by way of the previously unnumbered Mandana–Homer state highway.
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