Corning Wedding

Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,842 at the 2000 census. It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany, New York financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community.

The City of Corning is at the western edge of the Town of Corning and in the southeast part of Steuben County.

The city is the headquarters of FORTUNE 500 Company Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses.

It is also home to the Corning Museum of Glass, which houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of glass objects from antiquity to the present. The museum houses The Rakow Library, one of the world's major glass research centers.

The first settlement in the town was made near the site of the future city in 1796. The community was set apart from the Town of Corning as a village in the 1848. As the glass industry developed, Corning became known as the "Crystal City."

Corning was incorporated as a city in 1890.