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Wellsville is a village in southern Columbiana County, Ohio, on the Ohio River about 34 miles south of Youngstown.

In 1770 George Washington traveled down the Ohio River past the future site of Wellsville and noted in his journal that it was good bottomland.

The Yellow Creek Massacre of 1774, in which Virginia settlers killed relatives of the Mingo leader Logan and helped trigger Lord Dunmore's War, occurred near present-day Wellsville.

Wellsville was founded in 1797 by William Wells, a Pennsylvanian and former justice of the Northwest Territory, and its first school and church were established before 1800.

The village was platted in 1823 and incorporated in 1848, and the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad reached it in 1852, tying it to the Pennsylvania Railroad system.

In its heyday between 1832 and 1842, Wellsville controlled a large share of the river trade of 15 Ohio counties, receiving as many as 50,000 barrels of flour a year for trans-shipment down the Ohio River.

Wellsville became a pottery and ceramics center as well as a river and rail town; its first pottery was built in 1878, and bottle kilns of its old potteries stood along the riverfront into the modern era.

Wellsville's population peaked at 8,849 in the 1920 census, when Italian immigrants drawn to the valley's mills made up a large share of the village, a heritage still celebrated by its Sons of Italy lodge and annual Italian Festival.

The 2020 census counted 3,113 people in Wellsville living in 1,365 households — barely a third of the village's 1920 peak.

Wellsville calls itself the last deep river port coming upriver on the Ohio before barge tows must be broken down, and the Columbiana County Port Authority, created in 1977, operates port facilities and industrial parks there.