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Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Cambria County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Ebensburg
Year Organized: 1804
Square Miles: 688 |
Court House: 200 South Center Street
County Courthouse
Ebensburg, PA 15931-1947
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Cambria is an ancient name for Wales.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 26, 1804, from parts
of Huntingdon, Somerset, and Bedford Counties and named for Cambria Township of
Somerset County. Cambria is an ancient name for Wales. It was attached to
Somerset County until 1807. Ebensburg, the county seat was incorporated as a
borough on January 15, 1825 and named by Reverend Rees Lloyd for his deceased
eldest son, Eben.
First permanent settlement was on the site of Loretto in 1788, and population
growth was very slow until the 1830s. Then came the beginnings of coal mining
(1825), the Allegheny Portage Railroad (1834), iron production (1841), and the
Pennsylvania Railroad (1854). Always a large bituminous producer—today about
seventh in the state—the county's iron ore was once also worth mining. Cambria
Iron Works were formed in 1852 and bought out by Bethlehem Steel in 1922. The
area witnessed pioneer projects in the Bessemer method and the open-hearth steel
making processes, and in rolling steel rails. Disasters recurred: the Johnstown
floods of 1889 and 1936, and mine disasters in 1902 (Johnstown), 1922
(Spangler), and 1940 (Portage). Labor unions made little progress in Cambria
until the passage of the federal Wagner Act in 1937. Because it was so strongly
committed to heavy industry, deindustrialization has been pronounced in Cambria
since the 1970s. Welsh, Irish, and German groups were among the pre-industrial
population, and the Russian prince-priest Demetrius Gallitzin ministered at
Loretto from 1799 to 1829. Industrial employment resulted in the appearance of a
medley of European ethnic groups.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Adams |
township |
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- Ashville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Barr |
township |
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- Blacklick |
township |
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- Cambria |
township |
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- Carrolltown |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cassandra |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chest |
township |
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- Chest Springs |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Conemaugh |
township |
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- Cresson |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Croyle |
township |
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- Dean |
township |
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- East Carroll |
township |
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- East Conemaugh |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Taylor |
township |
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- Ebensburg
(County
Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ehrenfeld |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Elder |
township |
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- Gallitzin |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Geistown |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Glasgow |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hastings |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Johnstown |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lilly |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lorain |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Loretto |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lower Yoder |
township |
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- Middle Taylor |
township |
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- Munster |
township |
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- Nanty-Glo |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Northern Cambria |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Patton |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Portage |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Reade |
township |
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- Sankertown |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Scalp Level |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- South Fork |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Southmont |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stonycreek |
township |
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- Summerhill |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tunnelhill |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Upper Yoder |
township |
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- Vintondale |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Carroll |
township |
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- West Taylor |
township |
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- Westmont |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wilmore |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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