Cambria County (Pennsylvania, USA) |Cambria County, Pennsylvania
U.S. Census TIGER/Line map Cambria County, Pennsylvania, is a
coal and industrial area in the southwestern part of the state;
its its county seat is Johnstown. It lies north of Somerset
County, which has long been the seat of considerable Amish and
Mennonite settlements. A small corner of this settlement reaches
over into Cambria County, where the Weaver Church is located. In
the mid-1950s three new congregations were established in the
southern part of the county as the result of mission extension
work, Elton, Walsall, and one in Johnstown. The latter city was
founded by an Amish Mennonite, J. Johns (Tschantz) soon after
1800, after whom the city is named. Hege, Christian and
Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt &
Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 317.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp.
495-496. All rights reserv