Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hammondsport, NY

Hammondsport is a village in the Town of Urbana in Steuben County, sitting at the south end of Keuka Lake, one of New York's Finger Lakes.

The Hammondsport area was first settled in 1792, and the village takes its name from Lazarus Hammond, who founded the village around 1827.

Hammondsport was incorporated in 1856, with the first election of village officers held on November 22 of that year.

Beginning in the 1850s, vineyards and the wine industry emerged in and around Hammondsport, and by the start of World War I the village had twelve wineries and five grape-packing houses, making it a center of the New York wine industry.

Pioneer aviator Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born in Hammondsport in 1878, and he manufactured motorcycles, airplanes and engines there from 1901 to 1918.

Curtiss built some of the first seaplanes and tested them on Keuka Lake, working with Alexander Graham Bell and others in the Aerial Experiment Association.

Known as 'The Cradle of Aviation,' Hammondsport is home to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, which displays a full-scale replica of the first naval aircraft along with many original Curtiss planes.

In 1935, three days of heavy rain caused mudslides and major flooding that damaged or ruined many homes and buildings in the steep hillside village.

Hammondsport's population was 583 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Hammondsport had 731 residents living in 332 households.