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Old stone house from early Welsh settlement in Gaiman, Chubut, Argentina. In 1852 Thomas Benbow Phillips of Tregaron established a settlement of about 100 Welsh people in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Many of these colonists later moved to the more successful colony in Argentina as part of Y Wladfa ("The Colony").
The first Welsh settlers arrived in the 1790s. In 1848, The lexicorapher John Russell Bartlett noted that the area had a number of Welsh language newspapers and magazines, as well as Welsh churches. Indeed Bartlett noted in his Dictionary of Americanisms that "one may travel for miles (across Oneida County) and hear nothing but the Welsh language".
In its early years the 20,000-acre (8,100 ha) settlement was the home of Lutherans who had separated from the official church in the Duchy of Württemberg and immigrated to the United States. [6] The Harmonists built a new town in the wilderness, but in 1824 they decided to sell their property and return to Pennsylvania. [7]
The settlers were free citizens and, by 1860, the settlement was a racially integrated community. Ground-penetrating radar has found 28 graves in the cemetery; not all have gravestones.
Among the first Welsh settlers to arrive in America were Hugh Gwyn and David ap Hugh - two tradesmen who arrived in Jamestown with the Second Supply in 1608. [41] More Welsh arrivals came from Wales after 1618.
The history of human activity in Indiana, a U.S. state in the Midwest, stems back to the migratory tribes of Native Americans who inhabited Indiana as early as 8000 BC. . Tribes succeeded one another in dominance for several thousand years and reached their peak of development during the period of the Mississippian cu
The story of Welsh explorers is one of several legends about that site. In north-eastern Alabama, there is a story the Welsh Caves in DeSoto State Park were built by Madoc's party; local native tribes were not known to have practices such stonework or excavation that was found on the site. [52]
As such, the earliest settlers came as farmers, teamsters, service workers, and merchants. Most arrived from New England, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. A few even came from overseas.