Brief Description of the county
Cortland County is somewhat to the west of the center of New York State, south of Syracuse and north of Binghamton. Located in the glaciated Appalachian Plateau area of Central New York State, midway between Syracuse and Binghamton, this predominantly rural county is the southeastern gateway to the Finger Lakes Region.
The Homer Cortland Community Agency ( HCCA) oversees a museum complex that houses a permanent and rotating collection of antique Brockway Trucks, native to Cortland and Homer, NY, American and local military and railroad history collections from...
The Cortland County Historical Society operates from the 1882 Italianate home of inventor and real estate developer James Suggett. The museum portion of the complex features a well designed permanent display, At Home: Cortland County Interior...
The Cortland Free Library strives to provide information in a variety of formats and to make available library materials to educate, inspire, enrich, entertain, and inform the people of the Cortland area and the patrons of the Finger Lakes...
The Finger Lakes Library System is a cooperative library system, chartered in 1958 by New York State, to serve the public libraries in Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins Counties. The member libraries, currently numbering 33, are...
The library is a part of the Mid-York library association. The mission of the Berne Public Library is to meet the needs of the community by providing resources for lifelong learning and entertainment.