 The route of PA 848 began as an alignment of the Cochecton and Great Bend Turnpike ( a portion of the Great Bend and Newburgh Turnpike ) , a 19th Century turnpike built from Great Bend , Pennsylvania to Newburgh , New York . The road was completed in Pennsylvania in 1811 , five years after construction began . The turnpike did not fare after the mid @-@ 1800s , with the road abandoned in 1853 . When the modern state highway system for Pennsylvania debuted in 1928 , the alignment of future PA 371 was not included . In 1936 , PA 371 was designated on its alignment from New Milford to the New York state line ; however , this would only last sixteen years , as the Pennsylvania Department of Highways truncated PA 371 back to the intersection with PA 171 in Union Dale , further east in Susquehanna County . 
