History
When NY 91 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, it was substantially longer than it is today. NY 91 originally began at NY 26 in Cincinnatus and followed Taylor Valley Road and Cheningo Road through the Truxton hamlet of Cheningo to the hamlet of Truxton, where it joined its modern alignment and proceeded north to Jamesville. From there, the route continued north past Jamesville to NY 31 in Bridgeport by way of overlaps with NY 173 and US 11 through downtown Syracuse and what is now NY 298 from Syracuse to Bridgeport. NY 91 was truncated southward to the intersection of US 11 and NY 173 west of Jamesville c. 1934 and eastward to its current northern terminus at Jamesville at some point between 1935 and 1938.
In the late 1930s, the route was truncated northward to begin in Cheningo. The former route to Cincinnatus on Taylor Valley Road was designated as CR 600 by 1974. NY 91 was truncated again on April 1, 1981, when ownership and maintenance of the portion of the route south of NY 13 in the hamlet of Truxton was transferred to Cortland County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York. While NY 91 was cut back to the eastern terminus of its then-overlap with NY 13, the former routing of NY 91 south of Truxton to Cheningo on Cheningo Road was redesignated as CR 600A.
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