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Cambria was a Welsh-American farming colony in Pennsylvania, founded during the 1790s by 50 immigrants from the village of Llanbrynmair on land purchased by Baptist minister Morgan John Rhys. [1] The settlement was given a Latin name meaning "Wales". According to Marcus Tanner, Cambria is the first such Welsh-speaking community in the United ...
The mine was serviced by the Cambria and Indiana Railroad. Notable buildings include a variety of brick and frame miners' houses, a stone company store (1918), a payroll office (c. 1916), a company boiler house (c. 1916), a supply house (c. 1918), a machine and blacksmith shop (c. 1916), the Revloc Presbyterian Church (1923), the Most Holy ...
Roughly bounded by the borough line, Cambria Avenue, 28th Street, and Big Paint Creek 40°14′10″N 78°49′55″W / 40.236111°N 78.831944°W / 40.236111; -78.831944 ( Windber Historic
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The church was the centre of Welsh community life, and a vigorous Welsh-speaking press kept ethnic consciousness strong. Strongly Republican, the Welsh gradually assimilated into the larger society without totally abandoning their own ethnic cultural patterns. The Welsh language still being spoken in the area well into the 1970s. [3]
The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the Province of Pennsylvania, a British colony in North America (today a U.S. state), settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers in the late 17th century. The region is located to the west of Philadelphia.
Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, 1987 . Cambria County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,472. [2] Its county seat is Ebensburg. [3] The county was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Somerset counties and later organized in 1807. [4]
Cambria Township is located in the center of Cambria County at 40.515887,-78.744507, [4] 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Johnstown and 25 miles (40 km) west of Altoona. U.S. Route 22 crosses the township from east to west, U.S. Route 219 crosses it from north to south, and U.S. Route 422 leads west from Ebensburg across the western portion of the township.