Cambria’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Cambria. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1844, two brothers, John and Samuel Langdon, settled on the site. Samuel P. Langdon built a sawmill on a branch of Duck Creek, the other opened 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,
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cambria’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cambria’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWisconsin Assembly Representative…, 1969: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Cambria
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Cambria, decade by decade
1950s
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Wisconsin Assembly Representative Terese Berceau, 77th District (1969) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.