Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Ebensburg, PA

Ebensburg is a borough and the county seat of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, sitting on a plateau near the geographic center of the county about 25 miles west of Altoona.

Ebensburg originated in November 1796, when the Congregational minister Rees Lloyd led a party of about 20 Welsh settlers from Philadelphia into the Allegheny Mountains, naming the town for Eben Lloyd, who had died in childhood.

Ebensburg's Welsh roots ran deep: Cambria County itself was named for Wales (Cambria in Latin), and church services in Ebensburg were still commonly held in Welsh into the early 1840s.

Rees Lloyd offered land to the government in exchange for Ebensburg becoming the county seat, an arrangement accepted in 1805, and the borough was incorporated in 1825.

Ebensburg had 3,404 residents at the 2020 census and is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania metropolitan area.

In the 1800s Ebensburg became a fashionable mountain resort, and the large summer cottages built by wealthy city families, some with fifteen to twenty rooms, can still be seen in the borough today.

The Cambria County Courthouse in Ebensburg, built in 1881-1882 in the French Second Empire style, still anchors the center of town, and Ebensburg's downtown historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

Ebensburg hosts the annual PotatoFest on the last Saturday of September, celebrating Cambria County's potato growers - the county is Pennsylvania's second-largest supplier of potatoes.

The Ghost Town Trail, a rail trail named Pennsylvania's Trail of the Year, runs to Ebensburg, and the borough's recreation spots include Lake Rowena and Penn Eben Park.

Ebensburg students are served by the Central Cambria School District, and the borough is also home to Bishop Carroll Catholic High School.