Cambria Township was one of the three original townships created (about 1798) when the County was formed. It included the center of the county and the territory west and north of the center. The first settlement in Cambria Township was that at the presently deserted Village of Beulah, just north of Route 22.
The settlement of Beulah was made by a number of Welsh under the direction of Rev. Morgan John Rhys. It has been written many times that Beulah was a thriving village in 1804 when Cambria County was organized. Some historians have written that the decline of Beulah began when Ebensburg was selected as the county seat. Other writers of the early history of the county have reported that Beulah had a newspaper and a library. A newspaper was published with the Beulah date line, but it was printed in Philadelphia as part of the promotion. It is doubtful that a library was ever in operation there.
The first permanent settlers in Cambria Township were those who came to the area with Rev. Rees Lloyd.
For many years, the principal industry of the township were agriculture and lumbering. The township was underlain with coal but there was no great activity until the development of Colver.
Late in 1910, Ebensburg Coal Company broke ground in the northern part of the of the township for the development of coal. The company was owned by Messrs. J.H. Weaver and B. Dawson Coleman who named the new town “Colver”, using the first syllable of one name and the last syllable of the other. Colver grew to be one of the leading coal producers in the county. The first coal was shipped from Colver in 1911.
Revloc, in the western part of the township near Beulah, was opened under the Weaver and Coleman management in 1926. Revloc is the word Colver spelled backwords. The fist coal was shipped from Revloc in March of 1918.