Cambria, Wisconsin
| Cambria, Wisconsin | |
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| Motto: "A Growing Community" | |
 Location of Cambria, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates: 43°32′34″N 89°6′36″W / 43.54278°N 89.11000°WCoordinates: 43°32′34″N 89°6′36″W / 43.54278°N 89.11000°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Columbia |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.04 sq mi (2.69 km2) |
| • Land | 0.99 sq mi (2.56 km2) |
| • Water | 0.05 sq mi (0.13 km2) |
| Elevation | 915 ft (279 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 767 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 761 |
| • Density | 774.7/sq mi (299.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 920 |
| FIPS code | 55-12200 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1562559 |
| Website | www.cambriawisconsin.com |
Cambria is a village in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 767 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town was incorporated in 1866. It was first called Florence, or Langdon's Mills, later Bellville, and finally Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, probably on account of the Welsh settlers who came there in 1845.
Preceding the first Welsh colonists by about a year were the brothers Langdon. In 1844 they settled on the site of the present Village of Cambria, Samuel P. Langdon building a sawmill on a branch of Duck Creek, the other opening a small stock of merchandise. They surveyed and platted four blocks, and called the village Florence. But the mill dominated the landscape in those days, and the settlement around it was called Langdon's Mills.
The settlement had just begun when about fifty Welshmen, with their wives and children, came from North Wales, many from Dolwyddelan. Morris J. Rowlands, a son of one of the colonists, wrote in 1912,
Early in the summer of 1845 several families from North Wales met accidentally at Liverpool, England, seeking passage as immigrants to the United States of America. On the 17th day of July they sailed from Liverpool harbor on board a sailing vessel named the Republic, and after a voyage of six weeks and two days arrived safely in New York City on the 30th of August, 1845. . . .
After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces "Westward," a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land.
The next portion of the journey from New York to Albany was made on a steamboat. From Buffalo they took passage over the lakes on board a steamboat named Wisconsin, the name possibly being the means of drawing them to that particular boat; for that state was their "promised land." After a stormy voyage on the lakes they arrived at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 16th day of September, where a portion of them landed, and on the 17th at Racine, where the remainder left the boat.
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