December 10, 1880 - Court Decides Fate of Polish Cambria City Murder Suspect - Cambria Freeman

George Lambrinski - no evidence to base a conviction - charges dropped. 

 

February 20, 1880 - Fistacuffs with Gen. Jacob Campbell, Tragic Drowning of Child, Weird Butchering Accident and Train Break in Two plunging off Conemuagh No. 6 Bridge- Cambria Freeman

Gen. Jacob Campbell fistacuffs.

Daughter of John Donovan drowns in Hinkston Run on the way home from the Sister's (Catholic) School. 

Butcher Andrew Meyer and wife injured in Cambria City. 

Train breaks in two - two cars plunge off of the Conemaugh No. 6 bridge. 

 

New Town (Nicktown?) & A Warning To Boys - December 1865 - Ebensburg Alleghenian

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Portage Marine Killed; Brother Wounded Badly - Pfc. Paul Fuiek & Lt. John Fuiek

 

June 18 , 1869 - Cambria Freeman - Hand cut off at woolen mill, farmer murders wife, paving around St. John's and Sandy Vale

Odd & Ends - 9 February 1943

Stores robbed in the West End of Johnstown and kids gangs in Coopersdale.

 

South Fork Raid - 13 April 1936

96th Birthday - South Fork Woman

 Mrs. Mary (nee Jenkins) Johnson - South Fork, PA

24 March 1936

Henry Belinda - Beaverdale Boy - 1936 Floof Victim

Cambria County Exposition - 1929

Cresson

All I know about this picture is that it was taken in Cresson.

Nairn Hotel

Nairn Hotel - Nanty Glo

Carrolltown

Carrolltown - 1894

Carrolltown - 1894

Carrolltown was founded in 1840 when Father Peter Henry Lemke, who was an assistant to Prince Gallitzin and also pastor of the Catholic Church in Ebensburg at the time, bought 395 acres in what is now Carrolltown from William Vaux. The first lots were sold in 1847. In 1849 St. Benedict's Catholic Church was started in Carrolltown and dedicated in 1850. In 1851 John Campbell bought 81 acres from Father Lemke and laid out a town which he called Campelltown. However, that land together with the rest of the tract was combined and renamed Carolltown after Bishop Carroll of Baltimore. 

Salix

Salix around 1910.

Loretto - 1894

Loretto - 1894

Ebensburg - 1894

Ebensburg - Main Street - 1894

John Ludwig & Sons

John Ludwig & Sons - Ebensburg Woolen Mills

Lafayette Hotel

Lafayette Hotel - Hastings - Cambria County

Happy Birthday Cambria County!

Happy 210th Birthday - Cambria County! You don't look a day over 200. For you local folks - there will be cake at the courthouse this afternoon along with a celebration of the county I call home.