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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 ...
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.
His vision was to establish a "gwladfa" (Welsh-speaking colony) for nonconformist sects of the time, such as Quakers and Baptists, where religion could be practiced in Welsh. [4] In order to do this Rhys founded the Cambrian Company and purchased 17,400 acres (70 km 2 ) of land, 250 miles (400 km) west of Philadelphia from Dr. Benjamin Rush for ...
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 .
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Morgan John Rhys was a Welsh radical evangelical Baptist minister. He preached the principles of the French Revolution, against slavery, and in favor of the reform of parliament In 1794 he grew tired of the repression in Britain and emigrated to America where he established a Welsh colony, Cambria .
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 ...
Location of Cambria County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in the Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The locations of National Register properties and ...