Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania

Cambridge Springs is a borough with home rule status in north-central Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States, with 2,583 residents at the 2020 census. The village of Cambridge was settled in 1822 and named for Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the borough of Cambridgeboro in 1866, and took its present name in 1897 after the discovery of mineral springs made it a resort town of grand hotels. The Rider Hotel hosted a famous chess tournament in 1904 won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker, and a line of the Queen's Gambit Declined played there is still called the Cambridge Springs Defense. Alliance College stood here from 1912 to 1987, and its site is now a state correctional institution. French Creek flows through the north of the borough, which covers about 2.26 square kilometres and lies on U.S. routes 19 and 6, roughly 25 miles south of Erie.