The northern terminus of CR9 was originally located at Quaker Avenue in Cornwall, then designated as part of New York State Route307. NY307 continued north on Main Street to Hudson Street, where it ended at NY218. In 1980, ownership and maintenance of NY307 was transferred to Orange County, and its routing became part of two county routes: an extended CR9 and the new County Route107.
Route description
CR9 begins at an intersection with NY32 in Central Valley, just north of its intersection with NY17. The route heads northeastward, passing homes and tree patches. There are intersections with local roads, as CR9, also known as Smith Clove Road, crosses the New York State Thruway (Interstate87 or I-87). The road continues, passing Filters Lake and Central Valley Golf Club. Soon afterwards, CR9 passes through a large patch of forests, which also covers parts of West Point Military Academy.[1]
Smith Clove Road continues, passing forests to the east and homes to the west. The highway parallels I-87 and NY32, as it progresses farther to the northeast. Soon after, Smith Clove Road becomes full of forests and grass, with homes becoming scarce. CR34 (Trout Brook Road) terminates at CR9 while the road continues towards Cornwall. Whispering Brook is afterwards, a small road on the east of CR9.[1]
CR9 becomes known as Mineral Springs Road and continues northward through forests. CR65 (Angola Road) terminates at CR9 soon after. However, the name Angola Road continues to the north along CR9. As the highway approaches Cornwall, it becomes more suburbanized, with the Carvey–Gatfield House approachable on the east. With NY32 parallelling to the north, Angola Road continues into Cornwall. Just before the overpass of U.S. Route 9W (US9W), CR9 passes the Cromwell Manor, an early-19th-century house.[1][2]
Just after the overpass comes the David Sutherland House, a stone structure dating back to 1770.[3] His descendant also has a house along CR9, Daniel Sutherland House, which is located at the Chadeayne Circle. The highway there continues along Main Street, an urbanized, 3-lane highway until its terminus at NY218 in Cornwall-on-Hudson.[1]
CR9 is longer than five state-maintained highways in Orange County. NY210, NY284, NY293, NY416, and NY747 are all shorter than CR9.[1][4]
History
The original northern terminus of CR9 was at the intersection of Quaker Avenue, Angola Road, and Main Street in Cornwall. At this intersection, CR9 met NY307, a southwest–northeasterly route assigned in the mid-1930s that extended from NY32 to NY218 by way of Quaker Avenue, Main Street, and Hudson Street.[5][6] Meanwhile, the portion of Main Street from Hudson Street (NY307) to Academy Street (NY218) was an unsigned, state-maintained highway.[citation needed]
On January9, 1980, the NY307 designation was removed from the entirety of its routing.[7] Ownership and maintenance of both NY307's former routing west of Hudson Street, and Main Street between Hudson Street and NY218, was transferred from the state of New York to Orange County roughly three months later on April1 as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.[citation needed] Following the swap, CR9 was extended northward along Main Street to a new terminus at NY218 while NY307's former routing along Quaker Avenue was designated as CR107.[8]
Originally, CR9's Mineral Springs Road segment had a longer alignment within the forests south of Angola Road. This was realigned and the old alignment became known as Old Mineral Springs Road.[1]