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Many Quakers from Wales emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 17th century with a promise from William Penn that they would be allowed to set up a Welsh colony there. The Welsh Tract was to have been a separate county whose local government would use the Welsh language, since many of the settlers spoke no English.
Evans's map. John Thomas Evans (April 1770 – May 1799) was a Welsh explorer who produced an early map of the Missouri River.. Evans was born in Waunfawr, near Caernarfon.In the early 1790s there was an upsurge of interest in Wales in the story of Madog having discovered America, and there were persistent rumours in North America of the existence of a tribe of Welsh Indians, identified with ...
The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the Province of Pennsylvania, a British colony in North America (today a U.S. state), settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers in the late 17th century. The region is located to the west of Philadelphia.
This is list of locations in the United States named after places in Wales. A number of places in the U.S have been named after places in Wales by Welsh settlers and explorers. and are mainly in the 13 eastern states which used to be the Thirteen Colonies in the British Empire.
This is a list of places in the United States named for places in Wales. Bangor. Places named after Bangor, Gwynedd: Bangor, Alabama; Bangor, Maine; Bangor, New York;
The association with Prince Madoc and the towns is that he supposedly returned to Wales and was buried in the area that is now known as the town of Porthmadog. [53] [54] Madoc, Ontario, Canada. The township of Madoc, Ontario, and the nearby village of Madoc in Canada (North America) are both named in the prince's memory.
bigtallguy, flickr In the age of digital cameras, a vacation just isn't a vacation without a little photographic evidence. Have you ever stopped to wonder how many times the Lincoln Memorial or ...
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Central America. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.