Perrysburg, NY

Perrysburg is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,515 residents. The town is named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and is located in the northwest corner of the county. The town contains the census-designated place also named Perrysburg, formerly an incorporated village. The short version is that Perrysburg carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Perrysburg: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Perrysburg was formed in 1814 as the "town of Perry" from the towns of Hebe and Olean. Perrysburg originally consisted of the entire western half of the county and was created because the county did not yet have a centralized government; Hebe and Olean were administered as part of Allegany County. The northern border is Cattaraugus Creek with Erie County on the opposite bank.