Liberty Highway

The moniker "Liberty Highway" was first given by R. H. Johnson, who was the manager of the New York branch of the White Motorcar Company. Because well-known highways like the Liberty Highway were clogged with traffic, he studied maps and found a more direct route through the Southern Tier, which was better maintained and far less traveled. He christened it after Liberty, New York, through which the route travels, and to the "spirit of the times".^[2]

Johnson first published his route in Motor Age Magazine. Further publicity was brought by other publications, and a film commissioned by Johnson.^[3] The Liberty Highway Association was formed in 1919 to further promote the route.^[4]

Beginning with the designation of Route 17 over the highway in New York in 1924, the Liberty Highway label began to fall out of fashion, though it was still being advertised as late as 1928 by the AAA. When Route 17 began to be upgraded to a freeway, the Liberty Highway was long forgotten.^[3]

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• Dyckman Street, 10th Avenue to Englewood Ferry

• Henry Hudson Drive, Englewood Ferry through Englewood Cliffs
• County Route 505, Englewood Cliffs to Englewood
• Bennet Road
• Englewood Avenue
• Bergen County Route 37
• Bergen County Route 64 into Teaneck
• Queen Anne Road
• Bergen County Route 60 into Hackensack
• Bergen County Route 62, Hackensack to Ho-Ho-Kus
• County Route 507, Ridgewood to New York line at Mahwah

• U.S. Route 202, New Jersey line at Suffern
• New York State Route 59, Suffern to Hillburn
• New York State Route 17, Hillburn to Orange County Line

• New York State Route 17, Rockland County Line to Harriman
• New York State Route 17M, Harriman to Fair Oaks
  • Main Street through Harriman
  • Main Street, Hambletonian Avenue, Ward Road through Chester
  • Old Chester Road, Church Street, Main Street through Goshen
  • Denton Hill Road, Sly Place through New Hampton
  • Academy Avenue and North Street through Middletown

• Sullivan County Routes 170-179, Fair Oaks to Rockland
  • Old Liberty Road through Rockland

• Delaware County Route 17, Rockland to Hancock
  • Cooks Falls Road through Cooks Falls
• New York State Route 17, Hancock to Deposit Town
  • Bush Hilltop Road through Deposit
  • Lower Hale Eddy Road through Deposit
  • Hale Eddy Road through Hale Eddy
• New York State Route 8, Deposit Town into Deposit
• Oak Street, Pine Street, through Deposit, Deposit Town
• Second Street, from Deposit, Deposit Town to Deposit, Sanford Town

• Broome County Route 28, Deposit, Sanford Town to West Windsor
• Quickway through Kirkwood
  • Foley Road, West Windsor to Kirkwood
• U.S. Route 11, Kirkwood to Binghamton
  • Industrial Park Road, Barlow Road through Kirkwood
• New York State Route 17C, Binghamton to Tioga County Line
  • Watson Boulevard, River Road, Pelican Lane, Kent Avenue through Endicott

• New York State Route 17C, Broome County Line to Waverly
  • Belknap Road, Owego
• Tioga County Route 106, Waverly to Chemung County Line

• Chemung County Route 60, Waverly to Elmira Town
• New York State Route 17, Elmira Town
• New York State Route 352, Elmira
• Madison Avenue, Lake Street, Elmira to Horseheads
• New York State Route 17, Horseheads
• Chemung County Route 64, Horseheads to Big Flats
• New York State Route 352, Big Flats to Steuben County Line

• New York State Route 352, Chemung County Line to Corning Town
• Old State Avenue, College Avenue, Corning Town to Corning
• Market Street, Pine Street Bridge, Center Way, Corning
• New York State Route 415, Corning to Painted Post
• New York State Route 417^†, Painted Post to Jasper
  • Steuben County Route 79, Gang Mills
  • Old State Road, Old State Highway 17, Oak Road, Tuscarora
  • Woodhull-East Woodhull Road, Mill Street, Main Street, Jasper Street, Woodhull
  • Old State Road, Jasper
• New York State Route 36^†, Jasper to Hornell
  • Dineen Road, Canisteo
  • McBurney Road, Hornell Road, Hornellsville
  • Canisteo Street, Seneca Street, Hornell
• New York State Route 21^†, Hornell to Allegany County Line
  • Almond Road, Hornell to Hornellsville

• New York State Route 21^†, Steuben County Line to Andover
  • Old Whitney Road, Almond
  • Whitford Road, Almond to Alfred Town
  • Shaw Road, Alfred to Alfred Station
  • Hardy Hill Road, Water Street, Main Street, through Andover
• New York State Route 417^†, Andover to Wellsville
  • Jackson Road, Dyke Road, Andover
  • State Street, Main Street, Wellsville
• New York State Route 19^†, Wellsville to Belvidere
• Allegany County Route 20, Belvidere to Cuba
  • Hubble Hill Road, Cuba Town
  • Main Street, Cuba
• New York State Route 305, Cuba
• New York State Route 446, Cuba to Cattaraugus County Line

• New York State Route 446, Allegany County Line to Hinsdale
• New York State Route 16, Hinsdale to Olean
  • Old Route 16, Main Street, Hinsdale
  • Old Route 16, Main Street, Olean
• New York State Route 417^†, Olean to Jimersontown
  • First Street, Creekside Drive, Old State Road, Blair Road, Allegany
  • Center Street, Front Avenue, Salamanca
• New York State Reference Route 951T^†, Jimersontown to Steamburg

The former Liberty Highway still exists but is closed to traffic between Red House and Steamburg

• New York State Route 394, Steamburg to Chautauqua County Line

• New York State Route 394, Cattaraugus County Line to Jamestown
  • Carter Street, Lindquist Street, Poland
• Second Street, Third Street, Washington Street, Jamestown
• New York State Route 430^†, Jamestown to Mayville
  • Chautauqua County Route 126, Ellicot
  • Lakeside Drive, Bemus Point to Ellery
  • Sunset Bay Drive, Ellery
• New York State Route 394^†, Mayville to Westfield
• U.S. Route 20, Westfield to Pennsylvania Line at Ripley
  • Old Route 20, Forsyth Road, Ripley

• U.S. Route 20, New York line at North East Township to the Ohio Line at Springfield
  • Stinson Road, Old Buffalo Road, North East Township
  • Buffalo Road, 18th Street, State Street, Erie
  • East Main Street, East Springfield

• U.S. Route 20, Pennsylvania Line at Conneaut to Cleveland
  • Old Main Street, Main Street, Conneaut
  • State Road, 46th Street, Edgewood
  • 46th Street, Main Avenue, Center Street, Ashtabula
  • West Main Street, Geneva
  • Red Mill Valley Road, North Perry
  • Ohio Route 640, Willoughby to Willowick
  • Ohio Route 283, Willowick to Cleveland
  • Saint Clair Avenue, East 9th Street, Superior Avenue, Cleveland

Second-order bullet points indicate parts of the main route that were re-routed as the highway was upgraded

^†Former routing of New York State Route 17. As Route 17 was reassigned, the Liberty Highway designation was moved onto these new segments.