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The Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority was created in 1994 [1] by the Cambria County Commissioners using the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945 to establish recreation opportunities as well as assist with cleanup of streams and rivers due to pollution from coal mining in the county. The authority is overseen by a fifteen-member ...
The Ghost Town Trail is a rail trail in Western Pennsylvania that runs 36 miles (58 km) between Black Lick, Indiana County, and Ebensburg, Cambria County. [1] Established in 1991 on the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad, the trail follows the Blacklick Creek and passes through many ghost towns that were abandoned in the early 1900s with the decline of the local coal ...
Ebensburg is a borough and the county seat of Cambria County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [4] It is located 25 miles (40 km) west of Altoona and surrounded by Cambria Township. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at about 2,140 feet (650 m) above sea level. Ebensburg is located in a rich bituminous coal region. In the past, sawmills ...
Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, 1987 Cambria County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,472. [2] Its county seat is Ebensburg. [3]
Northwestern PA: website, administered by Slippery Rock University, 205 acres, residential and non-residential programs for schools Millbrook Marsh Nature Center: State College: Centre: Central PA: website, operated by Centre Region Parks & Recreation, 62-acre site consisting of a 12-acre farmstead area and an adjacent 50-acre wetland area
Western terminus of PA 120; northern terminus of US 219 Truck (northbound only) 160.1: 257.7: PA 948 north (Main Street) – Corsica, Warren: Northern terminus of PA 948 concurrency: Johnsonburg: 167.3: 269.2: PA 255 south (Powers Avenue) – St. Marys: Northern terminus of PA 255: Jones Township: 174.0: 280.0: PA 321 north (Buena Vista Highway ...
In 1933 a picnic area was built along Little Pine Creek by the Civilian Conservation Corps at what is now the park (but was then CCC Camp S-129). The CCC camp closed in 1937 and the picnic area came under the control of the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks. [10] In 1950, the dam was built for both flood control and recreational purposes. The ...
Ebensburg, the Cambria County seat, is 7 miles (11 km) to the east, and the city of Johnstown is 12 miles (19 km) to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, Blacklick Township has a total area of 31.2 square miles (80.8 km 2), of which 31.2 square miles (80.7 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.15%, is water. [4]