Allegany County (New York)

Allegany County is in the Southern Tier of New York state.

Cities

🌍 Belmont — the county seat
🌍 Alfred — home of Alfred State College, one of the state university system's highest-regarded technical schools, as well as the smaller, private Alfred University
🌍 Angelica — antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
🌍 Bolivar — 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
🌍 Cuba — no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
🌍 Houghton — another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
🌍 Rushford — vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
🌍 Wellsville — the largest village in Allegany County (population about 4,500), named not for the oil wells that flourished here in the 19th century but for a prominent local citizen

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