Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge. Below: old-book passages.
The Cambria Township post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Cambria (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cambria Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Cambria Township.
Cambria was platted in 1900. The community took its name from Cambria Township.
A post office was established at Cambria in 1881, closed in 1882, reopened in 1901, and closed permanently in 1967.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Cambria Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
About July 1st, 1856, Eev. Jenkin Jenkins arrived and located in Cambria Township, then called the Cottonwood Settlement, and took charge of the Congregational church. Practically all the colonists from Jackson and Gallia Counties, Ohio, were Calvinistic Methodists, and on July 3rd, a church of that denomination was organized in Cambria, at the log cabin of David
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Cambria Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Cambria, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Cambria Township post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge (listed 1980).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
