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VESTAL PARKWAY

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Transportation
Location
Vestal Memorial Park, 100 Vestal Parkway, Vestal, NY
Lat/Long
42.08542, -76.05401
Grant Recipient
Town of Vestal
Historic Marker

VESTAL PARKWAY

Inscription

VESTAL PARKWAY
PARKWAY STYLE HIGHWAY
BUILT 1941, COMPLETED 1951.
LED TO RAPID DEVELOPMENT
ALONG WHAT BECAME VESTAL'S
"$50 MILLION MAIN STREET."
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2016

The Vestal Parkway, built in 1941 and completed in 1951, resulted in the rapid growth of businesses in the community of Vestal giving it the nickname “$50-Million Dollar Main Street.” This historic marker was part of a special theme called the “Booming 1950s.”