Local History

John and Andrew McDermid built a grist mill and a sawmill here in 1835.  The Willits brothers Moses, Barron and Jonathan, came in 1837 and in 1841 they named the newly formed township after their native Cambria, Niagara County, N.Y.  Given a  post office as Woodbridge, named for Michigan Governor William Woodbridge in December 1840.  The office was renamed Cambria on June 1, 1841.  The village was platted in 1878. 

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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