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Cambria (/ ˈ k æ m b r i ə /) 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 (Welsh, Cymru ).
Cambria — a coastal town and census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, central California. Pages in category "Cambria, California" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The name Cambria lives on in some local names, e.g. Cambrian Line, Cambrian Way. It is also used internationally in geology to denote the geologic period between around 539 million years and 488.3 million years ago; in 1835, the geologist Adam Sedgwick named this geological period the Cambrian , after studying rocks of that age in Wales.
The Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic church building and cemetery on Main Street in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.Built from 1870 to 1871, the church was the first in Cambria and is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the town.
Cambria area shore. White Rock (Cambria) State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area located off the coast of the city of Cambria, California on California’s central coast. The marine protected area covers 2.32 square miles (6.0 km 2). Within the SMCA the take of all living marine resources is prohibited except the ...
Nitt Witt Ridge, 2013. Nitt Witt Ridge is a house on two and a half acres in the coastal city of Cambria, California, United States.Artist and recluse Arthur "Art" Harold Beal (1896–1992) bought his hillside lot in 1928 and spent most of the next 50 years carving out the terraces with only a pick and shovel, creating his own "castle on a hill".
Warren Leopold (February 15, 1920 – May 19, 1998) [1] was an American architect, painter and craftsman [2] who designed and built coastal homes in Cambria, California [3] and throughout San Luis Obispo County, California [4] and whose work is part of the organic school. [3]
State Route 46 (SR 46) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California.It is a major crossing of the Coast Ranges and it is the southernmost crossing of the Diablo Range, connecting SR 1 on the Central Coast near Cambria and US 101 in Paso Robles with SR 99 at Famoso in the San Joaquin Valley.