Plainville, New York
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Plainville is a hamlet on NY Route 370
New York State Route 370
New York State Route 370 is an east–west state highway in central New York in the United States. It extends for from an intersection with NY 104 and NY 104A south of the Wayne County village of Red Creek to a junction with U.S. Route 11 in the Onondaga County city of Syracuse...

 about 4.5 miles west of Baldwinsville in Onondaga County, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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It is noted for the extensive Plainville Turkey Farms, which remained in the same family from 1835 until recently. The business was sold and relocated to Pennsylvania in 2008 or 2009.

Nearby on Route 370 west of the hamlet is the James Leslie Voorhees house, Whig Hill
Whig Hill
Whig Hill is a historic house built in 1833. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.Whig Hill was the principal element within a listing Whig Hill and Dependencies, which included two barn clusters, a tenant house, and other outbuildings. The barn cluster north of...

(1833), one of the major historic houses of Onondaga County. Voorhees was a wealthy landowner of nearby property and a builder of New York City as well as Central New York engineering projects who was active in New York State politics.

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