Allegany County is in the Southern Tier of New York state.
Cities
- Belmont đ â the county seat
- Alfred đ â 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 đ â antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
- Bolivar đ â 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
- Cuba đ â no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
- Houghton đ â another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
- Rushford đ â vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
- Wellsville đ â 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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