First Cambria AME Zion Church
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N 40° 19.201 W 078° 55.276
17T E 676615 N 4465350
We survied the flood!
Waymark Code: WM7GXF
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2009
Views: 4
Marker Text: Formed 1873 in the loft of the Woodvale Tannery by workers there. Organized as Cambria Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 1874, at Napoleon and Dibert Sts. About 1877 it moved here. Washed from its foundation in the 1889 flood but later restored.
Marker Name: First Cambria AME Zion Church
County: Cambria
Date Dedicated: 05/10/1997
Marker Type: City
Location: 409 Haynes Street, Johnstown
Category: African American, Religion
Website: [Web Link]
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