[2] Wellsville is centrally located in the south half of the county, 8 miles (13 km) north of the Pennsylvania border.

Originally an encampment for native peoples, Wellsville's settlement was driven, first, by the tanning and lumber industries and, later, the discovery of oil and natural gas.

He married a Native American woman (Esther) and moved his family to the Wellsville area by 1795, while it was still owned by the Seneca Nation (two years before the Big Tree Treaty of 1797).

His tombstone has the official memorial placed there by the Catherine Schuyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

This proved that Nathaniel Dyke's choice of location was the quickest, easiest and most practical way across Allegany County.

Logging moved on to more densely forested areas in the latter part of the 19th century but the cleared ground quickly produced excellent grazing for a tremendous dairy industry which followed.

[5] Wells was the major landowner of the real estate pieces, now the downtown Main Street section of Wellsville.

A second boom occurred with the discovery of "Secondary Recovery", led by Bradley Producing, based in Wellsville.

The Sinclair Refinery was built in Wellsville at the beginning of the 20th century, not closing down until 1957 after two major fires and falling oil prices.

Since World War II, Wellsville's economy has been dominated by skilled engineering and manufacturing with a cluster of multinational companies in the energy sector.

Wellsville is the junction of many foothill streams including Dyke Creek feeding the Genesee River from the east.

The US Post Office-Wellsville, built by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression in the art deco style, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

It is a one-story, 132-foot (40 m) by 33-foot (10 m) structure displaying elements of the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.

At present, local officials are attempting to obtain a charter for the community to reorganize both municipalities into one entity, a city.

Wellsville's economy is dominated by skilled engineering and manufacturing with a cluster of companies in the energy sector.

The LC Whitford Company, founded in 1916, designs and manufactures electronic transformers, inductors and serves the automotive, aerospace, medical, data storage, lighting, power supply industries.

In 2010, the district upgraded the elementary school and athletic fields, complete with a multi-purpose, all-weather stadium.

Built in 1910 in the Georgian style, the brick building enjoys much natural light because of the large Palladian windows and still retains much of its original custom furnishings such as cork flooring, original carved oak wood ornamentation, and child-sized furniture in the children's wing.

[15] The Pink House is an Italianate-Revival mansion built in 1869 and located on the corner of West State Street and South Brooklyn Avenue.

[16] Many stories purport that the house is haunted by the ghost of a girl who drowned in the front fountain as well as her aunt, Mary Francis Farnum, who committed suicide in a nearby mill race after a failed love affair and whose tragic demise was the inspiration for Hanford Lennox Gordon's famous poem "Pauline."

The Pink House enjoys another literary association, as the setting for the 1987 Emmy-Award-winning film The Birthmark, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story of the same name.

[19] The event has received coverage by the national media, including the Today show and is beloved by balloonists and spectators alike.

[20] The Wellsville Creative Arts Center opened on September 9, 2006, in the old Carter Hardware building downtown.