We are conveniently located right on Rt 26 in scenic upstate Cincinnatus, NY in Cortland County. You can use the map above to get driving directions. You can move the map around with your mouse and zoom in or out. You can even switch to a satellite view. The Terrain button will show elevations as well as roads and villages.

The community was named after the Roman general Cincinnatus. The latitude is 42.542N. and the longitude is 75.896W.

Cincinnatus Weather Station

The following information is available in a flyer from the Cincinnatus Business Association.

Take a Drive and Discover Cincinnatus!
If you’re looking for a welcoming community with country charm and character, look no further. Cincinnatus is a great place to visit, and a great place to launch a business. With small town personality and warmth, a great local school district, and wonderful quality of life, Cincinnatus is also a great place to raise a family.

Settled in 1804, its architecture reflects its classical heritage, with Federal era, Greek revival, Queen Anne, Victorian and Italianate historic homes. It’s also a popular choice for families to build, with lovely modern, country-style homes set against the hills. The Cincinnatus school district is highly regarded, and features an extraordinary performance hall and auditorium, making it a center for the arts, culture and music. Parks and other amenities create a “hometown” atmosphere. Other local amenities include a locally-owned golf course, the Heritage Hall (circa 1831), Rogers Home Historical Site and Museum and Town Hall (circa 1844).

Cincinnatus is also home to the lovely Otselic River, named for the Native American word for “wild plum.” The river corridor is a wildlife refuge that offers great bird watching and blue-ribbon trout fishing along its shores. Telephone Road offers wonderful vistas of the pastoral valley, and be sure to follow Route 26 to the river for some scenic views. Cincinnatus is a four season community, with terrific winter sports such as cross country skiing, snow shoeing and snowmobiling.

A Classic Heritage
Ebenezer Crittenden and his Native American wife first came to Cincinnatus in the late 1700s to seek an ever-flowing spring of Native American lore. The spring still flows, more than 200 years later, at the heart of this peaceful valley. The Otselic River was the site of early American saw mills, grist mills, tanneries and wagon factories. The spirit of Cincinnatus is the spirit of early entrepreneurs, who found opportunity in this Colonial era frontier.

The first trading post was established in the early 1800s in the lower village, with the first hotel built in the 1830s. Many historic sites in Cincinnatus trace their origins back to this same era, and those early churches and homes have since become local landmarks. The early village featured a hat and millinery shop, as well as a tailor shop, copper, blacksmith and harness maker, and an old-fashioned department store. Of particular note were several old distilleries, considered a necessity in every pioneer town. By the late 1870s, milk and cheese factories became part of the working landscape, and the golden age of railroad saw the dairy industry flourish, as milk made its way to market. Cincinnatus was even home to one of the country’s earliest ice-cream makers.

Kerosene lamps illuminated the village at the turn of the Century, lit nightly by a boy riding a spotted pony. They were replaced by gasoline lamps in 1913, and later by electric lamps operated by the Cincinnatus Light & Power Co., with power generated by the Otselic River.
Historically a very progressive rural community, Cincinnatus has a very distinctive public library, donated by the Kellogg Brothers in the 1930s, with magnificent woodwork and an interesting collection of reference materials. Among those are local history records of entrepreneurs like Elmer Ambrose Sperry. Known for his “Yankee Ingenuity”, Sperry was born in Cincinnatus and educated at Cornell University. He went on to create eight companies and earn more than 350 patents including patents for the invention of the gyroscope and the automatic pilot. He is considered the father of modern navigation technology and is featured in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

The Early American Spirit of Entrepreneurism Lives on in 21st Century Pioneers:
More than 200 years later, Cincinnatus is a community where the spirit of entrepreneurism is still vibrant. The Cincinnatus Business Association is an extremely active organization that works to instill a strong sense of community pride, promoting the community as an ideal place to visit, live and build a business. The idyllic rural landscape of Cincinnatus – with its upper and lower villages set against a landscape of farms and state owned forests -- makes a great setting for a home based business. The community also welcomes downtown retailers, as well as restaurants, antique dealers, artists and gallery owners, craftspeople, wood workers and writers. There are opportunities to develop professional services, financial services or medical practices, as well as business in many other sectors.

The river still flows through this beautiful landscape, and so does the pioneer spirit of innovation, creation and entrepreneurship.

Cincinnatus is at the heart of Central New York, close to all the major attractions of the eastern Finger Lakes. It is easy to reach from both Interstate 81 and Interstate 88, and is a short drive from Syracuse and Binghamton. It makes a great day trip to Cooperstown and other vacation destinations. Call for more information on charming accommodations in the area.

Cincinnatus Central School District
As a family oriented community, kids come first at Cincinnatus. Like many pioneer communities, early Cincinnatus had a one-room schoolhouse in the 1800s. By 1857, the community was booming and the Cincinnatus Union School incorporated with the Cincinnatus Academy, a lovely Italianate structure that had been built the previous year. In 1935, the community laid the cornerstone for a beautiful new school, with neoclassic architecture and striking pink marble Corinthian colonnades topped by a triangular pediment. It is worth a visit to see the picturesque building, with its decorative carving, inspired by ancient Greco-Roman buildings.

The district is a great source of community pride and is known for academic excellence, as well as a commitment to developing proficiency in critical thinking and problem solving. With a strong emphasis on technology, it is among only a handful of schools in New York State to offer a five-unit sequence in computers with Regents credit. The district hosts year-round community events at the impressive Wilbur Auditorium.