History
The routing of most of modern NY 80 between Sherburne and Cooperstown was originally part of the Second Great Western Turnpike, an early toll road established in 1801. The road began at the eastern bank of the Chenango River in Sherburne and proceeded east through Cooperstown to Cherry Valley, where it connected to the First Great Western Turnpike and, later, the Third Great Western Turnpike. While what is now NY 80 dips south to serve New Berlin, the turnpike bypassed the settlement to the north, favoring a direct alignment between Columbus and Edmeston.
When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, none of the former turnpike was incorporated into the system; however, a road between Cooperstown and Springfield along the western edge of Otsego Lake was designated as part of NY 28. By 1926, a small segment of the ex-Second Great Western Turnpike between Edmeston and West Burlington was signed as part of NY 44. The NY 80 designation was created in the late 1920s and originally assigned to a previously unnumbered roadway between U.S. Route 20 in Springfield and NY 10A in Indian Lake via Nelliston and Speculator. North of Nelliston, NY 80 followed what is now NY 10 and NY 30. From Arietta to Speculator, NY 80 overlapped NY 54 (now NY 8).
In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 80 was truncated to its current eastern terminus in Nelliston; however, it was also extended southward and westward to NY 173 in Syracuse, replacing NY 28 from Springfield to Cooperstown and NY 44 from New Berlin to West Burlington. From Sherburne to Columbus and from West Burlington to Cooperstown, NY 80 utilized a previously unnumbered roadway that roughly followed the former alignment of the Second Great Western Turnpike. The remainder of the roadway between Syracuse and Sherburne, and from Columbus to New Berlin, was also previously unnumbered. NY 80 was extended northward to its present terminus at NY 175 by 1932.
The 2.5 miles (4.0 km) portion of NY 80 between Vincent Corners Road (CR 178) and the Madison County line was initially maintained by Onondaga County. On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of this section of the route was transferred from the county to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.
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