Ebensburg is a borough and the county chair of Cambria County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located 25 miles (40 km) west of Altoona and between Cambria Township. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at not quite 2,140 feet (650 m) above sea level. Ebensburg is located in a wealthy bituminous coal region. In the past, sawmills, tanneries, wool mills, and a foundry operated there. The number of residents in 1900 was 1,574, and in 1910, 1,978. The population was 3,351 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Ending in Ebensburg is the Ghost Town Trail, a rail trail expected in 1991 upon the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad. Also of note, next to the archaic Cambria County Jail, is the Veterans Park of Cambria County admiration the men from Cambria County who fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.

Ebensburg originated in November 1796, when Congregational minister Rees Lloyd led a small party of 20 Welsh people from Philadelphia to the lands Morgan John Rhees had agreed for his colony. They chosen an handsome spot in the tops of the Allegheny Mountains and there granted what would become Ebensburg, naming it for Eben Lloyd, who died in childhood. Lloyd offered home to the management in argument for Ebensburg becoming the county seat, which the presidency accepted. A easily reached settlement by the name of Beula, Pennsylvania sprouted just to the West of town following intentions of becoming the county seat. The town faded into profundity and now anything that remains is an antiquated cemetery.
Ebensburg was described in the 1940 Pennsylvania guide as being:

According to the book Cambria County Pioneers (1910), a General William Rudolph Smith, son of William Rudolph Smith, and refereed to as “Captain” by residents, lived in the town of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania in the 1840s and raised a Company of men known as the Cambria Guards who would relieve in the Mexican–American War, but Smith could not go. He was “universally trendy as an authority in school matters and upon historical subjects particularly he was a veritable encyclopedia. His educational style was forcible, direct, and elegant.” The Company he raised would embark South in January 1847, becoming Company D of the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, called the Highlanders, and had “a totally pleasant trip” on their habit to New Orleans. They did not see combat until August that year as smallpox put the company in quarantine. Shortly after their pardon they wise saying heavy clash at Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. Following this they were encamped at a Monastery until 1848 in the tone of they returned to Ebensburg. Ebensburg is situated at a crossroads of roads heading North and South, and East to West. It has seen heavy traffic through its chronicles but most significantly during the gold rush of the late 1840s and beyond. There was following a green apartment building situated on the corner of Phaney and East High Streets in town that was known as “The California House.” It operated for years as an inn and tavern and housed thousands of travelers heading West to find their fortunes in the West. One pubescent local boy called William J. Wherry joined a caravan West and left some detailed accounts of his journey in the form of letters to his sister, claiming to have crossed 600 miles of plain alone on his habit there. But as the wagons of the West ran teetotal and transport evolved, the railroad was becoming a popular and efficient mode of transportation. Railroads were popular in the easily reached town of Cresson, but there was no main stock of railroad that ran through Ebensburg. However, a branch called the “Ebensburg Cresson Rail Road” was built in 1862 to govern into Ebensburg. Many observed that Ebensburg, though industrious and highly developed in character, was not going to be an industrial town fixed its location and geography.