Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Odessa, NY

Odessa is a village in Schuyler County that straddles the towns of Catharine and Montour in the Finger Lakes region, just south of the southern end of Seneca Lake.

The village's land came out of the 1794 Watkins and Flint purchase, and its original 200 acres had been granted to Phineas Catlin Sr. for his military service.

Odessa's first building was a grist mill raised on Catlin Creek in 1801, and when the settlement was surveyed in 1839 it was known as Catlin Mills.

The village was renamed Odessa in 1845 by John I. Lawrence and John Foster, and the reason they chose the name of the Ukrainian port city has never been documented.

Because of shifting boundaries, Odessa's land sat in five different counties — Tryon, Albany, Montgomery, Tioga and Chemung — before Schuyler County was formed in 1854.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad laid tracks and built a depot in Odessa in 1892, but passenger service ended in 1946 and the tracks were removed after the railroad's 1976 bankruptcy.

Odessa was incorporated as a village in 1903, and in December 2010 its voters rejected a proposal to dissolve the village into the surrounding towns.

A street in Odessa is named Speedway because horse races were first run on the Mitchell Farm track there in 1905.

Odessa had 517 residents at the 2020 census, and at the 2010 census it counted 591 people in 246 households.

Village students attend the Odessa-Montour Central School, where wrestler Dylan Houseknecht became the school's first-ever New York state champion in 2019.