Editing Wellston, Ohio (section)

==History==
Wellston was laid out and founded in 1873 on land owned by Harvey Wells.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=156|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=140}}</ref>  Wells constructed a [[blast furnace]] in 1874,<ref name=Mangus>{{cite book|last1=Mangus|first1=Michael|last2=Herman|first2=Jennifer L.|title=Ohio Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bndxn4Qlt4EC&pg=PA572|year=2008|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-1-878592-68-2|page=572}}</ref> and the town was incorporated in 1876.  Wellston flourished for several years on the furnace and local mining industry, but most of the resources have now been depleted.