New York State Route 285

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NY 285 began at an intersection with NY 69 southwest of the hamlet of Taberg in the town of Annsville. The route headed northward, intersecting with Main Street, which connected NY 285 to Taberg. Here, NY 285 turned to the northwest and became Taberg–Florence Road. Just outside Taberg, the route passed Saint Patrick's Cemetery, as well as the remains of an old Protestant cemetery situated directly across NY 285 from it. As it continued northwestward through a rural portion of Oneida County, NY 285 passed a junkyard near the intersection with Pond Hill Road. Past an intersection with Carlisle Road, NY 285 entered a state reforestation area. As such, the surrounding landscape became mostly forested areas. Near the center of the reforestation area, the highway intersected with Skinner Settlement Road (CR 85). After passing over Corkin Hill, NY 285 headed downhill into the town of Florence.{{bing maps|url=http://binged.it/1K86K89|title=overview map of County Route 70A|access-date=July 15, 2015}}

After crossing into Florence, NY 285 remained in the reforestation area, and continued towards Thompson Corners on a linear, northwesterly routing. It passed Greely Cemetery, then continued to Thompson Corners, a very small community in southeastern Florence. NY 285 terminated here at an intersection with Empeyville Road (CR 67A) and Wolcott Hill Road (CR 70). CR 70 turned northwest at this junction to follow NY 285's right-of-way to the hamlet of Florence and eventually to the Oneida County line.{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=m33 |title=Florence Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1968 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=June 1, 2009}}

NY 285 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York to a highway connecting NY 69 (Main Street) in Taberg to the isolated hamlet of Florence in the town of the same name via Thompson Corners. The route was truncated southeastward to Thompson Corners {{circa|lk=no|1935}}.{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |publisher=Texas Oil Company |year=1934 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}{{cite map |title=Road Map & Historical Guide – New York |publisher=Sun Oil Company |year=1935 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} In the early 1960s, NY 69 was rerouted to follow a new purpose-built highway that bypassed most of Taberg to the south.{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sinclair Oil Corporation |year=1962 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sinclair Oil Corporation |year=1964 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} Most of NY 69's original alignment through the hamlet was transferred to the town of Annsville; however, its former western approach into Taberg along Taberg Road was realigned to meet the bypass and became a short extension of NY 285.{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/usgspreview/index.cfm?code=o43075c6 |title=Camden East Quadrangle – New York – Oneida Co. |publisher=United States Geological Survey |series=7.5 Minute Series (Topographic) |year=1955 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=June 1, 2009}}{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=n33 |title=Camden East Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1978 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=June 1, 2009}}

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On September 1, 1988, ownership and maintenance of NY 285 was transferred from the state of New York to Oneida County. The portion of the exchange relating to NY 285 was described in New York State Highway Law as follows, with annotations in brackets:{{cite web |author=New York State Legislature |author-link=New York State Legislature |url=http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$HAY341$$@TXHAY0341+&LIST=LAW+&TARGET=VIEW |title=New York State Highway Law § 341 |access-date=March 28, 2011}}

{{Blockquote|... to transfer to the county of Oneida for future maintenance as part of the county highway system in Oneida and to issue official orders of abandonment of those portions of highway described as follows: "beginning at a point on or near state highway five thousand one hundred thirty-nine [NY 69], west of the hamlet of Taberg, thence running generally northwesterly to a county highway in or near the hamlet of Thompson Corners.|New York State Legislature|New York State Highway Law § 341}}

In return, the state of New York assumed maintenance over a portion of River Street (CR 32) that connected NY 69 in Oriskany to NY 49 in Marcy.{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=o36 |title=Oriskany Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1978 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=June 1, 2009}} This highway became NY 922E, an unsigned reference route. Meanwhile, the NY 285 designation remained in place until November 4, 1988, when it was officially removed from the highway.{{cite book |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2017%20tour-bk.pdf |title=Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State |author=New York State Department of Transportation |author-link=New York State Department of Transportation |date=January 2017 |format=PDF |access-date=January 9, 2017}} The former routing of NY 285 became CR 70A,{{cite web |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-repository2/INV_2009-10-01_Oneida.csv |title=Oneida County Inventory Listing |date=October 1, 2009 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |format=CSV |access-date=January 20, 2010}} a spur of the pre-existing CR 70.

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