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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JQ1_cambria-veterans-memorial_Cambria-CA.html
Dedicated to
All Veterans
and the
Community of Cambria
American Legion Post 432
May 29, 1989
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ASI_piedras-blancas-lighthouse-lens_Cambria-CA.html
This first order fresnel lens was manufactured in 1850 in France by Henry LaPaute. The clock mechanism was built in 1872 and the lens you see here was installed atop the lighthouse at Piedras Blancas in 1874.
In 1949 the lens was removed from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1APF_preserving-a-bit-of-history_Cambria-CA.html
This property was once Cambria's historical "Chinese Center," the social focus for workers who harvested seaweed and abalone for shipment back to China, or worked in local quicksilver (mercury) mines in the mountains.
Here local Chinese once ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY46_nitt-witt-ridge_Cambria-CA.html
Nitt Witt Ridge, one of California's remarkable Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments, is the creation of Arthur Harold Beal (Der Tinkerpaw or Capt. Nitt Witt), a Cambria Pines pioneer who sculpted the land using hand tools and indigenous materi…