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Cambria was a Welsh-American farming colony in Pennsylvania, founded during the 1790s by 50 immigrants from the village of Llanbrynmair on land purchased by Baptist minister Morgan John Rhys. [1] The settlement was given a Latin name meaning "Wales". According to Marcus Tanner, Cambria is the first such Welsh-speaking community in the United ...
In the late 18th century, a Welsh colony named Cambria was established by Morgan John Rhys in what is now Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Later, between 1856 and 1867, there was an attempt by Samuel Roberts to establish a Welsh colony at Brynffynnon, Tennessee.
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.
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Roughly bounded by the borough line, Cambria Avenue, 28th Street, and Big Paint Creek 40°14′10″N 78°49′55″W / 40.236111°N 78.831944°W / 40.236111; -78.831944 ( Windber Historic
In 1794 he grew tired of the repression in Britain and emigrated to America where he established a Welsh colony, Cambria. He bought land in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania from Dr. Benjamin Rush and founded the town of Beula , which to his dismay, never became a fully realized endeavor and died promptly within a decade of its founding ...
Beula, or Beulah, Pennsylvania was a town that existed between 1796 and 1804 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, founded by Welsh Minister Morgan John Rhys. [1] [2] The original settlers under the guidance of Rhys had bought the land from Dr. Benjamin Rush, in search of a home in the countryside.
Cambria/Blair County: Allegheny Township [13] Beula: Cambria County: 1796 1804 Welsh religious ghost town. [14] Big Creek Valley: Carbon County: 1966 Submerged Submerged to form Beltzville Lake. [15] Big Run: Elk County [16] Billmeyer: Billmyer [17] Lancaster County [18] Blairfour: Blair County: The site of a quarry for Blair Limestone Company ...