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11 unusual facts about Allegany County


Alfred Sun

The Alfred Sun is a weekly newspaper serving the residents of Alfred, New York, USA and the neighboring communities in Allegany County.

Alfred-Almond Junior-Senior High School

Alfred-Almond Junior-Senior High School is a public high school located in Almond, Allegany County, New York, U.S.A., and is the only high school operated by the Alfred-Almond Central School District.

Andover Central School

Andover School is a public combined elementary, middle and high school with Pre-kindergarten located in Andover, Allegany County, New York, U.S.A., and is the only school operated by the Andover Central School District.

Cuba-Rushford High School

Cuba-Rushford High School is a public high school located in Cuba, Allegany County, New York, U.S.A., and is the only high school operated by the Cuba-Rushford Central School District.

Cumberland Subdivision

At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end (at Mexico, Maryland) it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision.

Diomede Falconio

Falconio taught philosophy at St. Bonaventure's College and Seminary in Alleghany from 1865 to 1871, serving as its President from 1868 to 1869.

Forceythe Willson

Byron Forceythe Willson was born April 10, 1837 in Little Genesee, Allegany County, New York.

Green Spring, West Virginia

Green Spring is the site of a one-lane low water toll bridge that connects Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) to Maryland Route 51 in Oldtown, Allegany County, Maryland.

Jonathan Gibralter

He was instrumental in bringing to Allegany County a grant of $2.5 million for site work for the first building in the Allegany Business Center at Frostburg State University, a technology park on the FSU campus.

Mary Alfred Moes

During the summer of 1865, the Guardian of the Franciscan friars in the United States, Father Pamfilo da Magliano, O.S.F., summoned Sister Alfred to St. Bonaventure Friary, in Allegany County, New York, along with the first postulant to the community, Mary Ann Rosenberger.

WNED-TV

The transmitters and towers belonged to the Chautauqua Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the experimental Appalachian Television Project, and Cattaraugus Area Television System (CATS) group and were scattered across numerous small towns in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.


Fillmore Central School

Fillmore Central School is a public school in Fillmore, Allegany County, New York, U.S.A., that serves grades Pre-K to Grade 12 and is the only school operated by the Fillmore Central School District.

Philetus Swift

He was a member of the New York State Assembly from Genesee, Ontario and Allegany Counties in 1807 and 1808, and from Ontario County in 1823.

Pinto, Maryland

Pinto is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland across from Rocket Center, West Virginia.

U.S. Route 220 in Maryland

Known as McMullen Highway for much of its length in Maryland, US 220 is the primary north–south route in central Allegany County, connecting Cumberland with its southern suburbs and Keyser, West Virginia to the south and Bedford, Pennsylvania to the north.

Wills Mountain State Park

Wills Mountain State Park is an undeveloped Maryland state park located near Cumberland in Allegany County.