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Oneida County and Utica, New York became the cultural center of the Welsh-American community in the 19th century. Suffering from poor harvests in 1789 and 1802 and dreaming of land ownership, the initial settlement of five Welsh families soon attracted other agricultural migrants, settling Steuben, Utica and Remsen townships.
Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies; A timeline of the history of Wales and details of some of the communities in the U.S. where Welsh influence is most important; Patterns of Welsh settlement in the United States in the first half of the 20th century; Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande; The Welsh in Pennsylvania
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.
In the mid-1730s, a group of Welsh settlers established themselves in New Hanover County in an area known as the Welsh Tract. A 1738 map of North Carolina shows two Welsh settlements, one on the ...
This is a list of places in the United States named for places in Wales ... Locations in the United States with a Welsh name This page was last edited on 30 ...
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.
Welsh-American culture (1 C, 2 P) W. ... Locations in the United States with a Welsh name This page was last edited on 31 December 2023, at 14:15 (UTC). ...
The settlement was given a Latin name meaning "Wales". According to Marcus Tanner, Cambria is the first such Welsh-speaking community in the United States. Beginning in 1801, migrants from Cambria began to move West to found the Welsh-American settlement at Paddy's Run, which is now the site of Shandon, Ohio. [2]