Wellsville Historic District

Wellsville is a village of roughly 50 dwellings and related buildings along Main and York Streets in northern York County, Pennsylvania, with most houses dating from the later 19th century. Village growth began around 1843, when Abram Wells moved a whip manufacturing company from York to the family farm, and a tannery, fly net factory and baby shoe firm followed. Surviving buildings include a Methodist church dated 1852, a Queen Anne school built in 1903 with a fieldstone foundation, a sandstone bank from 1928, and Willowdale, a cut sandstone mansion of 1869. The village is regarded as a largely unaltered example of a 19th-century industrial village whose streetscape of similar-sized houses, brick sidewalks and tree-lined streets has survived after the local manufacturing declined.