Wellsville changed very little visually during the twentieth century; the borough's appearance has remained that of a nineteenth-century community, complete with brick sidewalks and Gothic Revival and Greek Revival houses.
Because of its unusually high quality of preservation, nearly all of the community was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as the "Wellsville Historic District". Among the district's 48 contributing properties are an 1850s Methodist church, a small group of nineteenth-century commercial buildings, and the Wellsville House, an 1870s structure that has been used as a factory, museum, and restaurant.
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History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present1886 · page 669Read the page →
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The Quaker Meeting House. — The historic old building located near the village of Wellsville, surrounded by a beautiful groveof native trees, is one of the landmarks ot the county. For more than a century it was.
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History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present1886 · page 668Read the page →
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Religious services were held by the Methodists in the vicinity of Wellsville as early as 1830. Meetings were conducted by Methodists in the farm house of Edward Wells (now owned by Jacob Brenneman) and the dwellings of Abraham Harman and Mrs. Wolgemuth. Permission was obtained to use the old frame schoolhouse which stood one-half
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History of York County Pennsylvania1907 · page 819Read the page →
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He then removed his plant to Wellsville, and united with the Wells Whip Company, with whom he remained one year. When the United States Whip Company absorbed both the whip and net manufactories, a new independent net industry was formed under the name of the Wellsville Manufacturing Company, remaining as such until 1902. In that year, on Nov. 15th,
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