Cambria, California Burton Drive in Cambria's historic East Village Location in San Luis Obispo County and the state of California Location in San Luis Obispo County and the state of California Named for Cambria County, Pennsylvania Cambria Historical Museum, in the restored Guthrie-Bianchini House, assembled 1870.
Cambria / ke mbri / is a seaside village in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles along California State Route 1 (Highway 1).
The name Cambria, chosen in 1869, is the Latin name for Wales.
Cambria is situated amidst Monterey pines in one of only three such native forests. Previously, the town had gone by the names of Slabtown, Rosaville, San Simeon and Santa Rosa.
The earliest human settlement of this region is known to be associated with prehistoric surroundingion by the Native American Chumash citizens s, who exploited marine resources along the coastal area, with emphasis upon sites that were close to rivers. Although our recorded history of the tribes in this region does not begin until the explorers and missionaries arrived, there is evidence of many tribal settlements in the region later known as Cambria.
Experts believe these tribes to have been migratory and used Cambria as a cyclic settlement; other scientists are convinced that they lived there permanently.
According to scientists there is sizeable evidence to conclude that Cambria tribes were gentle, generous, and peaceful citizens and that they lived simply.
The Spanish explorers camped near the present site of the Coast Union High School, on Santa Rosa Creek, on September 10, 1769, and again on December 24-25, spending the first Christmas in what later became known as Cambria.
Cambria is positioned on the Rancho Santa Rosa Mexican territory grant given in 1841 to Julian Estrada.
For a while, Cambria was a boom town, with $280,000 worth of quicksilver shipped out of San Simeon between 1867 and 1870. During a several years Cambria was a booming mine town, and prospectors flooded the area.
Hopes were high, and Cambria inhabitants dreamed of imminent wealth.
Unfortunately, by 1878, mercury prices started to fall and Cambria's first economic boom ended. As mercury prices fluctuated, Cambria's quarrying thrived and dwindled.
Originally an American settlement called Slab Town, the town later known as Cambria was centered at the Leffingwell cove of today's northern Moonstone Beach, which beach also featured a wharf.
Because lumber production, ranching activities and mercury quarrying increased in the area, the village adopted the more dignified name of Cambria.
The name as such was contributed by a small-town surveyor from Cambria County, Pennsylvania, because the small-town topography and flora reminded him of that place. During the high unemployment years of the Great Depression, many of the Cambria people found welcome employment in the building activities.
Additionally, Cambria provided supplies, services, and accommodations for many who came to build the Castle, creating prosperity in Cambria in an otherwise not really prosperous decade. Other notable locations in the town include the historical Old Santa Rosa Chapel which was assembled in 1870, and as one of the earliest churches in the county of San Luis Obispo, held Catholic mass until May 26, 1963. The church fell into neglect until 1978, when the chapel and cemetery were restored.
Cambria is positioned at 35 33 15 N 121 05 15 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 8.5 square miles (22 km2), all of it land.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Cambria had a populace of 6,032.
The ethnic makeup of Cambria was 5,166 (85.6 %) White, 18 (0.3 %) African American, 47 (0.8 %) Native American, 78 (1.3 %) Asian, 14 (0.2 %) Pacific Islander, 557 (9.2 %) from other competitions, and 152 (2.5 %) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 6,031 citizens (100 % of the population) lived in homeholds; only 1 (0 %) was known to live in non-institutionalized group quarters, and none were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 858 citizens (14.2 %) under the age of 18, 281 citizens (4.7 %) aged 18 to 24, 865 citizens (14.3 %) aged 25 to 44, 2,116 citizens (35.1 %) aged 45 to 64, and 1,912 citizens (31.7 %) who were 65 years of age or older.
4,030 citizens (66.8 % of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,001 citizens (33.2%) lived in rental housing units.
There were 2,816 homeholds out of which 18.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.6 % were married couples living together, 7.1 % had a female homeholder with no husband present; 33.2 % were non-families; 26.8 % of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.2 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Cambria is home to the Cambria Historical Museum in the historic East Village and to the California State Historical Landmark No 939, Nitt Witt Ridge. California ground squirrels are a common sight near Cambria's beaches The Fiscalini Ranch Preserve (formerly known as the East-West Ranch) is a 430-acre park that separates Cambria's East and West Villages; it protects over a mile of spectacular Pacific Ocean coastline.
The Fiscalinis were pioneering Italian Swiss dairymen, who moved into the Cambria region in the 1880s; they acquired a number of dairy farms, including what they called the Town Ranch.
The Fiscalini family donated small plots of the Town Ranch as building sites for the Cambria enhance library, the Veterans Memorial and a exhibition.
Cambria State Marine Conservation Area and White Rock (Cambria) State Marine Conservation Area are marine protected areas off the coast of Cambria.
Cambria is assembled on the Cambria Slab, a 5,000 ft.
The Cambria Slab extends from Villa Creek in Estero Bluffs State Park to San Simeon Creek, holding up the high coastal ridge between Cayucos and San Simeon State Park.
The rocks in places are distorted and sheared (for example, below the high bluff at the north end of Moonstone Beach), and in a several areas injected by Franciscan melanges and serpentinites (as on the beach below the high bluff at the north end of the Bluff Trail in the Fiscalini Ranch preserve).
In the state council Cambria is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 35th Assembly District, represented by Republican Jordan Cunningham. In the United States House of Representatives, Cambria is in California's 24th congressional district, represented by Democrat Salud Carbajal. Cambria is home to the Coast Unified School District.
The Coast Unified has one K-5 elementary school, one 6-8 middle school, one traditional 9-12 high school, Coast Union High School, and one alternative high school.
Coast Union High School, home of the Broncos, is a very small enhance high school positioned on the farmland of Cambria.
The town became the basis for the hit radio drama "Milford-Haven U.S.A" that aired first locally in Cambria and San Luis Obispo, and also in Rochester, New York from 1987 to 1990.
Cambria is the setting for the romance novel Moonstone Beach by Linda Seed.
Covarrubias, Amanda (November 4, 2014) "In Cambria, rift over water treatment plant is a drain on parched town" Los Angeles Times Baker, Gay Cambria" Harbor - Town Histories, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003, p.
Paul Squibb, 1984, Captain Portola in San Luis Obispo County in 1769.
Cambria Historical Society - Local History "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Cambria CDP".
https://cambriahistoricalsociety.com/ Cambria Historical Society Gayle Baker, 2003: Cambria, a history.
David Chipping, 1987, Geology of San Luis Obispo County, privately presented.
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