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Dryden Historic District is a national historic district located at Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 44 properties encompassing the historic core of the village of Dryden. Except for three mid-19th-century commercial buildings, the district consists of residential structures pleasantly spaced along three lined streets.
The region was part of the Central New York Military Tract, land given as compensation to soldiers of the American Revolution. Robert Harpur, a Clerk in the office of the New York State Surveyor General who named numerous New York townships in 1790 based on his own classical studies, named Dryden for John Dryden [4] (1631–1700), the English poet and a translator of the classics (including ...
The portion of NY 392 east of NY 215 was originally designated as part of NY 90 in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. In the early 1980s, the state of New York assumed maintenance over an east–west county-maintained highway linking NY 13 and NY 38 in the village of Dryden to NY 90 in the hamlet of Virgil.
In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 9, an unsigned legislative route that ran from the Southern Tier to Bouckville via Ithaca and Cortland.Route 9 exited the city of Ithaca on Forest Home Drive to near Varna, where it picked up modern NY 366 east through Etna to Freeville, then continuing southeastward toward Dryden on what is now NY 38.
Dryden is located at (42.489188, -76.299589 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km 2 ).None of the area is covered with water.
The former alignment of NY 13 from downtown Ithaca to the junction of Willard Way and Stewart Avenue became part of NY 34A while the remainder was redesignated as NY 392. [1] [2] NY 34A was realigned in the early 1940s to follow Stewart Avenue south of NY 392, resulting in the truncation of NY 392 to the intersection of University and Stewart ...
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Dryden, Town Of, New York: 1805–1889 Author Of School Books Resided In West Dryden And Completed His "First Speller" Here 26: FIRST ROAD On Co. Rd. At Malloryville Dryden, Town Of, New York: In Tompkins County From East. Used By Many Early Settlers. Started By Joseph Chaplin; Contractor, May 5, 1792. Completed In 1795 27: FIRST ROAD