Editing Wellsburg, New York (section)

== History ==
The area was settled around 1788. The village was incorporated in 1872.

[[Christ Episcopal Church (Wellsburg, New York)|Christ Episcopal Church]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2000.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

In the 1930s, there were also a Methodist and a Baptist church. Catholics attended services in a church about {{convert|18|mi}} across the [[Pennsylvania]] border (Centerville or Bentley Creek). The village contained two bars, two grocery stores (Aber and Stanton), Dalton's meat market, two gas stations, a "creamery", an Erie Railroad depot, Dalton's coal yard, a deteriorated Hotel Alcazar, a post office, and Schuyler's Feed, Grain & Lumber Yard. A four-story school served grades 1–12, with a small playground and a ballfield. Some students were bussed in from surrounding areas. One day in 1939, an "[[autogyro]]" landed on that ballfield and remained a short time. Wellsburg had a mayor and a constable; the latter being rather "adept" at catching those who overturned outhouses during Halloween.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}

Occasionally the Chemung River would overflow, usually flooding the short road between Wellsburg and [[Lowman, New York|Lowman]], but it once flooded Wellsburg to the extent that rowboats could enter the Methodist church. Local farmers hired kids to do farm chores, usually at $0.50 per-day. Youngsters driving tractors into town (for gas) were a familiar sight. During the WWII years, students aged 14 and up were allowed days off from school to help local farmers harvest their crops. There was also an "airplane spotter's shack" on the side of a hill, during the war; teens often served as "spotters".{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}