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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 ... Locations in the United States with a Welsh name This page was last ...
Wymore was platted in 1881 as a railroad town, on land donated by Sam Wymore. [3] The "Welsh Capitol of the Great Plains," Wymore became home to generations of immigrants from Wales, who continued their culture in day-to-day life, founding a Welsh-language church, school and cemetery, as well as preserving the Welsh traditions of poetry, dance, and intricate music in minor.
Numerous Welsh immigrants settled in the town of Freedom and surrounding townships in Cattaraugus County in southwestern New York during the 19th century. In 1848, The lexicorapher John Russell Bartlett noted that Oneida County had a number of Welsh language newspapers and magazines, as well as Welsh churches.
This is a list of place-names in countries outside of Wales which are named after places in Wales, or derived from the Welsh language, or are known to be named after a Welsh person. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Welsh in the United States (Caldra House, 1984). Berthoff, Rowland. British Immigrants In Industrial America (1953) Coupland, Nikolas, Hywel Bishop, and Peter Garrett. "Home truths: Globalisation and the iconising of Welsh in a Welsh-American newspaper." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural development 24.3 (2003): 153–177. [50]
List of cities in Wales; List of towns in Wales; List of towns and cities in England by population; List of towns and cities in Scotland by population; List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population
The list is based on recommendations provided by the Place-names Standardisation Panel, convened by the Commissioner, for expert advice on the standardisation of Welsh place-names. The panel bases their decisions on a set of guidelines (currently dating to June 2023), specific to Welsh settlement names (such as those of villages, towns , and ...