Editing Trumansburg, New York (section)

==Transportation==
Trumansburg is bisected by [[New York State Route 96|NY Route 96]], a state highway, enlarged and re-routed in 1961, that runs north to [[Waterloo (village), New York|Waterloo]] and south to Ithaca. [http://www.tcatbus.com Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit] (TCAT) (Route 21) provides local bus service to Ithaca with connections to long-distance bus and air service there.

In the 19th century, Trumansburg had a port at Frontenac Point, at the mouth of the Trumansburg Creek on Cayuga Lake. The lake is connected at its north end to the [[Erie Canal]] via the [[Cayuga-Seneca Canal]]. The docks, warehouses and hotels that made up the port have long since been torn down or have burned. Only scattered pilings remain, and the site is now a camp owned by the local Boy Scout council.

The [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]] ran through Trumansburg between September 13, 1873, and October 1962, when the portion south to Ithaca was abandoned and most of the easements sold to the New York Gas & Electric Company (NYSEG). The portion north to Geneva was abandoned in 1967. In the last 15 years{{when|date=March 2025}} the state park system has bought back much of the right-of-way and is in the process of constructing a biking and hiking trail along the portion south to Ithaca. It is called the Black Diamond Trail, after the Lehigh Valley's premier passenger train that ran between New York City and Buffalo along the line (although not stopping in Trumansburg). {{citation needed|date=June 2014}}