Former alignment of NY 89-414 in Mays Point

Mays Point is a

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in the Town of Tyre, Seneca County,

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, United States, near the Wayne and

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county lines. It is located northeast of the hamlet of Seneca Falls, at an elevation of . The primary intersection in the hamlet is at N.Y. Route 89 and Mays Point Road (CR 105A). Mays Point is situated along the

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near the junction of the

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and Clyde rivers within the

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. The

New York State Thruway The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway and colloquially "the Thruway") is a system of controlled-access toll roads spanning within the U.S. state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Thruway ...

(

Interstate 90 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain states, Mountain West, Great Pla ...

) passes just south of the hamlet. Erie Canal Lock 25 is located off Mays Point Road, near N.Y. Route 89. It was built around 1912, and has a lift of to the west.NY Canals (Index of Locks)
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References

* Hamlets in Seneca County, New York Hamlets in New York (state) {{SenecaCountyNY-geo-stub