ITHACA, a city of New York, U.S.A., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake; the county seat of Tompkins county. It is served by the Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley railways and by lake steamers. The population in 1930 was 20,708. The city spreads up from a level valley over heights to the south, east and west. It is surrounded by the romantic scenery of the Finger Lake region, and there are picturesque gorges, cascades and water-falls within the city limits. Cornell university (q.v.) occupies a beautiful cam pus of 1,5o0 acres. On the edge of the city is Buttermilk Falls State park; and the State parks embracing Taughannock Falls (215ft. high) and Enfield Falls are respectively 9m. N. and 7m.
S.W. Ithaca is a farming centre, a distribution point for coal from the Pennsylvania mines; and has various manufactures (including firearms, typewriters, adding machines, electric clocks) valued in 1925 at $6,910,811. Ithaca was settled about 1789; named by Simeon De Witt in 1806; incorporated as a village in 1821 ; and chartered as a city in 1888. At Buttermilk Falls stood the princi pal village of the Tutelo Indians (Coreorgonel), destroyed by Sullivan's army in 1779.