Editing Danby, New York (section)

== History ==
The [[Cayuga people]], one of the Six Nations of the [[Iroquois|Haudenosaunee]], occupied the land at the head of Cayuga Lake for centuries. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the [[Sullivan Expedition|Sullivan-Clinton Expedition]] in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794. Danby's first European-American settlers, including Isaac and John Dumond and Jacob and Joseph Yaple, arrived in 1795.

The town of Danby was created from the town of [[Spencer, New York|Spencer]] on February 22, 1811. Danby was part of [[Tioga County, New York|Tioga County]] until 1822 when it was annexed by Tompkins County. In 1839, a part of the town of [[Caroline, New York|Caroline]] was added to Danby, and part of Danby was lost to the town of [[Dryden, New York|Dryden]] in 1856.

The Ithaca-Owego Turnpike was completed through Danby in 1811, connecting Cayuga Lake with the [[Susquehanna River]]. Today, Route 96B generally follows the same route and continues to provide an important connection between Ithaca and Binghamton and communities downstate.