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Jul. 7—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The history of Northern Cambria will be commemorated at this festival. The sixth annual Northern Cambria Regional Heritage Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to ...
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 ...
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 Cambria Historical Society is raising money to renovate two buildings: a schoolhouse and a jail. Celebrate the season at Cambria Harvest Festival. Here’s what is in store
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 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 ...
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