New Deal work programs built the Glenn Curtiss Memorial School, the Painted Post post office, the Arkport dam.  Civilian Conservation Corps crews developed Stony Brook State Park, and created soil conservation projects.
But also part of the New Deal were the Federal Artists Project (which created the post office mural in Painted Post) and the Federal Writers Project.
One notable accomplishment of the Writers Project was creation of lengthy hardcover travel guides for each state.  This gave the writers work, but it was also aimed to stimulate tourism business, and with it gasoline sales… not to mention work for printers, and revenue for booksellers.
The New York State guide describes power boating on Keuka Lake and the wineries, which “grow more famous each year,” at Hammondsport, besides including a photo of a champagne cellar at Rheims.
That’s all in the overview, but then the guide suggests numerous auto routes you can take on your own through the Empire State.  Four of them pass through Steuben.

One tour goes from Elmira to Olean, on what was then State Route 17.  The guide suggests visiting Corning and the Corning Glass Works, emphasizing this advice with a photo of a glass blower and another of the 200” disc (miniature discs sold as souvenirs).  The showrooms are open to the public, and the plant by appointment.  The Glass Works are famous for Pyrex, glass fibres (shades of the future!), and the “very fine decorative glassware” at the Steuben Division.
Your route then takes you to Painted Post, where people are largely employed by foundries, machine shops, and Ingersoll-Rand, and then through Erwin (a hamlet) and Jasper, where you find the junction with State Route 21.  That’s the end of the Steuben descriptions on this route.

A Penn Yan-Hammondsport-Bath tour runs along State Route 54, but this is primarily what we call 54A, the West Lake Road.  After working around Bluff Point and through Branchport, then heading south, the guide points out Keuka Lake’s connections with aviation history, pointing out Glenn Curtiss and his accomplishments.  Hammondsport “is proud of the title, ‘Cradle of  American Aviation.’”  The tour then passes Stony Brook Farm, mentioning Curtiss’s flights there, especially the July 4 June Bug flight in 1908.
Hammondsport, of course, is also “a center of the New York State champagne industry,” and the next feature along the route is Pleasant Valley Wine Company.  The guide treats us to a lengthy description of the champagne process before sending us by the Fish Hatchery and down to Bath, where the tour ends at the junction with U.S. Route 15.

A Pulteneyville-Naples-Hornell-state line tour enters Steuben at Wayland, the northern junction with U.S. 15.  It proceeds to Hornell, a town “made” by the Erie Railroad and then the home of 27-acre Elim Bible School, which the writers apparently considered a significant attraction all by itself.  “Outsiders come to watch the camp meetings….  The worshippers, sitting around in a circle, listen to the music of a three-piece orchestra, maintaining an unbroken posture for hours at a stretch with no outward sign of physical discomfort; here and there one rises, raises his eyes heavenward, and chants hymn fragments; then, eyes partly closed, mumbling as in a trance, several throw their arms above their heads, cry out, and roll on the ground in the hysteria of emotion; all become convulsed with joy, and even the onlookers take the contagion and smile at one another with unaccustomed cordiality.”
After giving some history on George Hornell and Benjamin Crosby, the guide directs us on through Canisteo (stopping for the tale of Kanisteo Castle in colonial days) to Jasper, where the Steuben information again ends at the junction with State 15.

Lastly there’s a Rochester-Bath-Painted Post-Lawrenceville tour.  This also enters the county at Wayland, the junction with State 21 and a stopping place on the old Elmira-Buffalo stagecoach route.  Once the Erie railroad came in, “German immigrants settled here and gave the place a reputation for hard work and thrift,” making Steuben “one of the greatest potato-growing counties in the country.”  Waylanders also raise peas, corn, and beans, besides operating chair and silk factories.
The route then takes you to Stony Brook Park, where a 25-cent parking fee will gain you access to 560 acres of rough, rocky country, then being improved by a federal work relief project.
On your way to Avoca (which we only skirt) you cross the site of a U.S. Soil Service soil erosion project, put into effect after the horrible 1935 flood.  Avocans, we are told, manufacture brooms, hockey sticks, spools, reels, and potato graders.  The writers also pass on the story of the farmer who discouraged theft of his firewood by adding in a little gunpowder.
Then you come to the rich farming area of Bath, where busy workers make saddlery, ladders, and knit goods.  Pulteney Square, we’re assured, is lined with business blocks and buff-colored county buildings.  After a few Charles Williamson stories we’re off to Painted Post, the junction with State Route 17 and the last mention of Steuben County.