Cambria was a coal mining town located 7 miles north of Newcastle. In 1887, Frank Mondell, a future Congressman, found enough coal in the area to fuel construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad across northeastern Wyoming. Because of the abundance of coal, the Cambria Mining Company, later called The Cambria Fuel Company, was organized in 1891 and acquired 17,000 acres of land. By the turn of the century the company was mining 1500 to 1800 tons of coal daily. To house its employees, the company created the town of Cambria, where from 1900 and 1920 between 1000 and 1500 people of various nationalities lived. The community supported many business and civic organizations, including three churches, an opera house, a school, a hotel, a sawmill, and a concert band. Cambria depended upon the availability of coal. In the winter of 1927, no new coal seams were available. All work stopped at noon on March 15, 1928, and soon afterward people began to leave Cambria. Within a couple of years the town site was abandoned, and the equipment and buildings were moved elsewhere.