| Coal mining town named after a coal mining town in England. (WPA) The ancient name of Wales meaning "land of mountains." (Annals of Wyoming 14:3) Named by Kilpatrick Brothers, railroad contractors, who constructed the Burlington Railroad through Wyoming and developed the first coal mine at Cambria on the Burlington in Wyoming. Named after Welsh coal mines. (Annals of Wyoming 15:1) "Some old-timers, now moved to other places, live to tongue-roll the name Cambria. With nostalgia they recall back when when their real blood princess was born, a little blue-eyed babe of a traveling show manager's wife. 'Cambria' she was christened in the miners' interpretation of a royal coronation." (Pence and Homsher) |
