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In Pennsylvania, the highway travels through the length of the [[Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area]], along the southern part of the [[Pocono Mountains|Poconos]] in Monroe and Carbon counties through [[Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania|Jim Thorpe]] and along parts of the defunct historic [[Lehigh Canal]] and [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]] then over the [[drainage divide|divide]] near [[Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania|Nesquehoning]] into the [[Schuylkill River|Schuylkill Valley]] along Panther Creek. For part of its route in New York, US&nbsp;209 runs alongside the defunct [[Delaware and Hudson Canal]], which ran from [[Port Jervis, New York|Port Jervis]] to Kingston,<ref>{{cite book|last=Haufrecht|first=Herbert |author2=Norman Studer |author3=Norman Cazden|title=Folk Songs of the [[Catskills]]|publisher=[[State University of New York|SUNY]] Press|year=1982|isbn=0-87395-580-3}}</ref> in each case, following the old land road connections connecting the [[anthracite]] coal fields of [[Northeastern Pennsylvania]] with the industries and heating customers in [[New York City]].
 
US&nbsp;209 is one of the original highways in the 1926 U.S. Highway System plan. The route was initially an intrastate highway contained entirely within Pennsylvania. It began at an intersection with [[U.S. Route 11 in Pennsylvania|US&nbsp;11]] (now [[U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania|US&nbsp;22]]&nbsp;/ [[U.S. Route 322 in Pennsylvania|US&nbsp;322]]) in Clarks Ferry (east of [[Duncannon, Pennsylvania|Duncannon]]) and ended at [[U.S. Route 6 (Pennsylvania)|US&nbsp;6]] in [[Milford, Pennsylvania|Milford]].<ref name="1926map">{{cite map |author1= [[Bureau of Public Roads]] |author2= [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] |date= November 11, 1926 |title= United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url= https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale= 1:7,000,000 |location= Washington, DC |publisher= [[United States Geological Survey]] |oclc= 32889555 |access-date= November 7, 2013 |via= [[Wikimedia Commons]] |name-list-style= amp}}</ref> US&nbsp;209 was extended northward to US&nbsp;9W in Kingston, New York, in April 1935 and truncated to Millersburg, Pennsylvania, by 1938.<ref name="Thibodeau 1938">{{cite book |last=Thibodeau |first=William A. |title=The ALA Green Book |edition=1938–39 |year=1938 |publisher=Automobile Legal Association}}</ref> The portion of US&nbsp;209 in New York north of [[Port Jervis, New York|Port Jervis]] was previously designated as US&nbsp;6 from 1926 to 1928, '''U.S. Route&nbsp;6N''' from 1928 to 1933,<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us6.htmcfm |title=U.S. 6 – The Grand Army of the Republic Highway |author=Richard F. Weingroff |publisher=[[Federal Highway Administration]] |access-date=June 16, 2009}}</ref> and '''New York State Route&nbsp;279''' from 1933 to 1935.<ref name="Gulf Refining Co">{{cite map |publisher=[[Gulf Oil|Gulf Refining Co.]] |title=[[Rand McNally]] Official Road Map of New Jersey |year=1934}}</ref><ref name="Sun Oil Company">{{cite map |title=Road Map & Historical Guide – New York |publisher=[[Sun Oil Company]] |year=1935 |cartography=[[Rand McNally and Company]]}}</ref>
 
US&nbsp;209 was realigned onto [[limited-access highway]]s in two locations along its routing during the 1950s. The first is in the [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania]], area. Originally just a bypass of Stroudsburg, a portion of this expressway is now also part of [[Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 80]] (I-80) while another portion is now also part of [[Pennsylvania Route 33|PA 33]], with the southern end and the portion between I-80 and PA 33 still just US 209. The second is in the Kingston, New York, area. Serving as a bypass of Kingston that connects to the [[Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge]], the highway begins west of Kingston along US 209 south of [[NY 28]] in Ulster and ends north of Kingston, at a [[cloverleaf interchange]] with US 9W and NY 199, still in Ulster. This also serves as the current northern terminus of US 209, replacing the old terminus at US 9W in Downtown Kingston. When the expressways were finished, US&nbsp;209's former routing through downtown Stroudsburg was redesignated as [[U.S. Route 209 Business (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)|US&nbsp;209 Business]], and [[New York State Route 28|NY 28]] was extended over US 209’s former alignment through downtown Kingston.<ref name="Official Map of Pennsylvania">{{cite map |url=ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Statewide/Historic_OTMs/1960fr.pdf |title=Official Map of Pennsylvania |publisher=[[Pennsylvania Department of Highways]] |year=1960 |access-date=June 15, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref><ref>{{cite map |url=ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Statewide/Historic_OTMs/1970fr.pdf |title=Official Map of Pennsylvania |publisher=[[Pennsylvania Department of Highways]] |year=1970 |access-date=June 15, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>
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=== New York ===
[[File:Old US 209 shield.jpg|thumb|1958 specification US 209 shield in [[Sullivan County, New York|Sullivan County]]]]
Before the designation of the New York highway system, what is now US&nbsp;209 was part of the Gap Way, which ran from the Pennsylvania border at Port Jervis to Kingston.<ref name=":0" /> In the mid-1920s, a highway connecting [[Pennsylvania Route 7|PA&nbsp;7]] at [[Port Jervis, New York|Port Jervis]] to [[New York State Route 10|NY&nbsp;10]] (now [[U.S. Route 9W|US&nbsp;9W]]) in [[Kingston, New York|Kingston]] via [[Wurtsboro, New York|Wurtsboro]] and [[Napanoch, New York|Napanoch]] was designated as NY&nbsp;50.<ref>{{cite news |title=New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 21, 1924 |page=XX9}}</ref><ref name=bluebook>{{cite book |title=Automobile Blue Book: Standard Touring Guide of America |edition=1926 |volume=1 |publisher=Automobile Blue Books, Inc |location=Chicago}}</ref> In 1927, the first official route log published by [[AASHO]] included the NY&nbsp;50 alignment as part of [[U.S. Route 6 in New York|US&nbsp;6]]. A year later, AASHO modified the definition of US&nbsp;6, placing the route along a new alignment farther south in the state. In turn, the Port Jervis–Kingston highway was redesignated US&nbsp;6N. The designation remained in place until 1933, when it was removed.<ref name="us6">{{cite web |url=httphttps://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us6.cfm |title=U.S. 6 – The Grand Army of the Republic Highway |first=Richard F. |last=Weingroff |publisher=[[Federal Highway Administration]] |work=Highway History |date=July 27, 2009 |access-date=July 20, 2010}}</ref> The former US&nbsp;6N was then redesignated as NY&nbsp;279.<ref name="Gulf Refining Co"/> The road changed designations for the final time in April 1935, rejoining the [[U.S. Highway System]] and becoming part of an extended US&nbsp;209.<ref name="1935change">{{cite news|title=Changes in State Road Route Numbering Which Effect Ulster County|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.710302.xyz%3A443%2Fhttp%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2520%25201932-1935%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2520%25201932-1935%2520-%25201092.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbackend.710302.xyz%3A443%2Fhttp%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7abed30a%26DocId%3D2755131%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D2%26hits%3Dcb9%2Bcba%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.710302.xyz%3A443%2Fhttp%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2520%25201932-1935%2FNew%2520Paltz%2520NY%2520Independent%2520and%2520Times%2520%25201932-1935%2520-%25201092.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Fbackend.710302.xyz%3A443%2Fhttp%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D7abed30a%26DocId%3D2755131%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26HitCount%3D2%26hits%3Dcb9%2Bcba%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=March 2, 2017|work=New Paltz Independent and Times|date=April 25, 1935|page=1}}</ref>
 
The portion of US&nbsp;209 south of Kingston has remained virtually unchanged, with the exception of local realignments. Two such reroutings were in the vicinity of the [[hamlet (New York)|hamlet]]s of [[Spring Glen, New York|Spring Glen]] and [[Napanoch, New York|Napanoch]], where US&nbsp;209 was initially routed on Phillipsport Road and Main Street, respectively.<ref name="1935map">{{cite map |title=Road Map & Historical Guide – New York |publisher=[[Sun Oil Company]] |year=1935 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}</ref> US&nbsp;209 was realigned to bypass Napanoch {{circa|lk=no|1962}},<ref>{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=[[Sunoco]] |cartography=[[H.M. Gousha Company]] |year=1961 |edition=1961–62}}</ref><ref>{{cite map |title=New York with Sight-Seeing Guide |publisher=[[Esso]] |cartography=[[General Drafting]] |year=1962}}</ref> by which time construction had begun on a bypass of Spring Glen.<ref name="1962map">{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=[[Sinclair Oil Corporation]] |year=1962 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}</ref> It was opened to traffic by 1964.<ref>{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sinclair Oil Corporation |year=1964 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}</ref>
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|location=Stroudsburg
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|notes=South end of US&nbsp;6 overlapconcurrency
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|mile=0.61
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|notes=Exit&nbsp;113 on theFuture Quickway (NY&nbsp;17 / future [[I-86 (/ NY)|I-86]]) 17
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|notes=NorthernNorth terminusend of US&nbsp;209&nbsp;/ NY&nbsp; 55 overlapconcurrency; western terminus of US&nbsp;44; hamlet of [[Kerhonkson, New York|Kerhonkson]]
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|notes=NorthernNorth terminusend of US&nbsp;209&nbsp;/ NY&nbsp; 213 overlapconcurrency; hamlet of [[Stone Ridge, New York|Stone Ridge]]
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|notes=Access to Kingston Hospital
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