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==History== Cambridge City was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1836.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA521 | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Volume 2 | publisher=Inter-State Publishing Company | year=1884 | pages=521}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.waynet.org/facts/history_dates.htm | title=Historical Timeline | publisher=WayNet | accessdate=June 2, 2014}}</ref> The community was named after the city of [[Cambridge]], in [[England]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dept. of English and Journalism |title=Indiana names, v.1-3|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000054436682;view=1up;seq=29|year=1970β1972|publisher=Indiana State University|page=15}}</ref> The Cambridge City post office has been in operation since 1835.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Wayne |title=Wayne County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=July 7, 2016}}</ref> Cambridge City experienced growth when the [[Whitewater Canal]] was extended to that point in 1846.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time | publisher=R. Clarke & Company | author=Young, Andrew White | year=1872 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog/page/n305 249]}}</ref> Situated along the historic [[National Road]] ([[U.S. Route 40]]), Cambridge City is currently a prominent destination for [[Antique#Antiquing|antique seekers]].{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} The [[Cambridge City Historic District]], [[Conklin-Montgomery House]], and [[Lackey-Overbeck House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> [[File:VintonHouse CambridgeCityIN.jpg|thumb|Vinton House, a historic inn on the Whitewater Canal]]
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