Allegany County (New York)

Allegany County is in the Southern Tier of New York state.

Cities

 * — the county seat
 * — home of Alfred State College, one of the state university system's highest-regarded technical schools, as well as the smaller, private Alfred University
 * — antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
 * — 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
 * — no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
 * — another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
 * — vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
 * — 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