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FIPS code. 42-82160. Website. www .wellsboroborough .com. Wellsboro is a borough and county seat of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The borough was founded by Benjamin Wistar Morris. It is located 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Williamsport. The population was 3,472 at the 2020 census.
Mary Wells Morris. Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, statue of Mary Wells Morris, April 2011. Mary Wells Morris (September 4, 1764 – November 6, 1819) is the person after whom Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is named. She was born in Burlington County, New Jersey. [1] She moved to Tioga County with her husband Benjamin, her son Samuel, and her daughter Rebecca.
January 5, 2005. Wellsboro Historic District, is a national historic district in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States. It includes 531 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and four contributing objects. It is a 360-acre (1.5 km 2) district that is a mixed use commercial / residential / institutional district.
Benjamin Wistar Morris (sometimes spelled "Wister"; 1762–1825) [1] was the founder of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Samuel Wells Morris, Morris' son, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. His grandson was Episcopal bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris, II, and his great grandson was Benjamin Wistar Morris, III, a noted architect.
Wellsboro – A borough in the eastern part of the township, located at the junctions of Pennsylvania Route 660, Pennsylvania Route 287, and U.S. Route 6. It is the county seat of Tioga County. Wellsboro Junction – A village on the Wellsboro and Corning Railroad, approximately one mile north of Stokesdale. References
The Wellsboro Area School District is a small, rural/suburban public school district located in central Tioga County. Wellsboro Area School District encompasses approximately 330 square miles (850 km 2 ). The district serves the borough of Wellsboro and also serves: Middlebury Township, Charleston Township, Delmar Township, Duncan Township, and ...
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum. [1] [2] Eight of the ten most populous ...
There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania. Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of ...