Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania
Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania Downtown Cambridge Springs Location of Cambridge Springs in Crawford County Location of Cambridge Springs in Crawford County Cambridge Springs is positioned in Pennsylvania Cambridge Springs - Cambridge Springs Location of Cambridge Springs in Pennsylvania Cambridge Springs is a home rule municipality, formerly a borough, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The village of Cambridge was settled in 1822 and was titled for the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was incorporated into the borough of Cambridgeboro on April 3, 1866. The discernment of the springs eventually led to renaming the borough to Cambridge Springs on April 1, 1897. It was a resort town featuring a range of hotels including the Rider Hotel, which burned down in 1931.
Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places are the Cambridge Springs Bridge and Amos Kelly House. In 1904, the Rider Hotel in Cambridge Springs was the site of a famous chess tournament won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker and fourteen other players.
A variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined opening played a several times there is today known as the Cambridge Springs Defense (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nf3 Qa5 in algebraic notation).
In 1912 United States President William Howard Taft traveled to Cambridge Springs for the dedication.
The site of the college is now occupied by State Correctional Institution Cambridge Springs, a minimum-security prison.
In the early twentieth century, the town became a "veritable 'Mecca' to chronic hoboes" who were interested in meeting Leon Ray Livingston, the famed hobo and author who had established Cambridge Springs as his home base while not traveling.
The borough adopted a home rule charter on May 21, 1974 that took effect on January 5, 1976. While the community's official name remains the "Borough of Cambridge Springs", it is no longer subject to the Pennsylvania Borough Code.
Cambridge Springs is positioned in north-central Crawford County at 41 48 8 N 80 3 33 W (41.802324, -80.059174). It is surrounded by Cambridge Township, a separate municipality.
Route 19 and 6 pass together through Cambridge Springs, dominant north 7 miles (11 km) to their split near Mill Village and south 12 miles (19 km) to Meadville, the Crawford County seat.
Erie is 25 miles (40 km) north of Cambridge Springs via US 19.
Pennsylvania Route 99 leads northwest from Cambridge Springs 7 miles (11 km) to Edinboro, PA 86 leads south 4 miles (6 km) to Woodcock, and PA 408 leads southeast 27 miles (43 km) to Titusville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 0.872 square miles (2.26 km2), all land. French Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River, flows through the northern part of Cambridge Springs.
The ethnic makeup of the borough was 84.9 percent White, 12.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian, 0.9 percent from other competitions, and 0.7 percent from two or more competitions.
There were 675 homeholds out of which 21.7 percent had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7 percent were married couples living together, 19.0 percent had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 48.4 percent were non-families.
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"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Cambridge Springs borough, Pennsylvania".
Cambridge Springs Boro (Crawford County Government) Municipalities and communities of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States
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