Editing Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Business district in Wellsboro.jpg|thumb|2013 view of business district in Wellsboro]]
[[File:Tioga County Courthouse Official.jpg|thumb|Tioga County Courthouse in Wellsboro]]
[[File:Wellsboro Diner interior.jpg|thumb|The interior of Wellsboro Diner]]
Wellsboro was settled in 1806 and incorporated in 1830 and was named in honor of [[Mary Wells Morris|Mary Wells]], wife of one of the original settlers, [[Benjamin Wistar Morris (colonist)|Benjamin Wistar Morris]].<ref name=CofC>{{cite web|url=http://www.wellsboropa.com/index.php/2012-08-03-02-42-37/history|title=History of Wellsboro|publisher=Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce}}</ref> The town was the home of [[George W. Sears]] (1821&ndash;1890), a [[sportswriter]] for ''[[Field & Stream]]'' magazine in the 1880s and an early [[environmentalist]]. His stories, appearing under the pen name "[[Nessmuk]]", popularised self-guided [[canoe camping]] tours of the [[Adirondack Park|Adirondack]] lakes in open lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping. Wellsboro was also the site of one of the first factories where [[incandescent light bulb|light bulbs]] were mass-produced, using machines whose design remains essentially unchanged from the early 20th century when the [[Corning Glass Works|Corning]] company established the plant in the town.

The [[Robinson House (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania)|Robinson House]], [[Jesse Robinson House (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania)|Jesse Robinson House]], [[Wellsboro Armory]], and [[Wellsboro Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>