Schellsburg is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 329 at the 2020 census.

Schellsburg was thus named after John Schell who contracted and founded the community. John Schell’s grandfather Michael Schell first arrived in Philadelphia from the Palatinate by pretension of Rotterdam in 1727, after which more family members arrived in 1732 and again in 1738. In 1732 when he returned with additional members of his family, Michael Schell purchased a substantial tract of land where he settled subsequently his family in the Perkiomen Valley northwest of Philadelphia, an area in Upper Hanover Township far ahead known as East Greenville, in what was later Philadelphia County and became Montgomery County in 1760. The next to community of Hillegassville was named after its founder Johann Frederick Hillegass. His granddaughter Elizabeth Barbara Hillegass married John Schell Jr., who was born in 1725 at the associates homestead granted to his father John Schell Sr., the youngest son of Michael Schell who died in 1770.

At an at the forefront age, John Schell Jr. became possessed of considerable means after his patriotic serve in the Revolutionary War and his father’s death in 1777. For many years he traveled extensively upon business through Bedford County, western Pennsylvania and Kentucky, which was admitted as a let pass in 1792. He was impressed by the climate and fruitful soil in Kentucky, decided to sever there and prefer land to support his own community for his relations and friends. In the spring of 1800, John Schell and his family, consisting of his wife, eight young kids and his widowed mother, left their house in Montgomery County and traveled west. When they arrived at the Ohio River, he realized that it would be unsafe for his family to traverse the river by ship due to the Indians. He returned through Napier Township in Bedford County and approved instead to reach agreement in what is the present location of Schellsburg.

On May 1, 1800, John Schell purchased large tracts of estate of higher than 1,500 acres (6.1 km), which were higher divided into farms and total to each of his sons in imitation of an equivalent in child maintenance and estate to his daughters. His own homestead was build up on property located external the town of Schellsburg. John Schell generously donated house for schools, churches and town lots and approved parcels to the town and its citizens. In 1808 he laid out the town lots, developed the community and provided impetus for construction of the understandable turnpike as its first president. After he arranged in Bedford County, relatives and neighbors in Montgomery County followed and decided in the Place and the short vicinity. Schellsburg was incorporated as the second borough of Bedford County in 1838. The town was designated as the Schellsburg Historic District in 2001 and included on the National Register of Historic Places in wave of the town’s rich architectural line of buildings build up of log and rock in the 19th century.