First Cambria A.M.E. Zion Church

Formed 1873 in the loft of the Woodvale Tannery by workers there. Organized as Cambria Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 1874, at Napoleon and Dibert Sts. About 1877 it moved here. Washed from its foundation in the 1889 flood but later restored.

Marker is at the intersection of Haynes Street (Pennsylvania Route 403) and Menoher Boulevard (Pennsylvania Route 271), on the left when traveling west on Haynes Street.

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