carnkie
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16 years ago
May be of some interest.

Wymore is a city in Gage County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,656 at the 2000 census. Wymore was founded on April 7, 1881 on land donated by Sam Wymore as a railroad town.
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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. In 2000, the Wymore Welsh Heritage Project was founded to preserve the legacy of these early settlers. It has since expanded to include a museum, an archive of genealogical records, and one of the largest Welsh-language libraries in North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wymore,_Nebraska 
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merddinemrys
16 years ago
Very interesting. Would be nice to know where the Welsh settlers came from. Many Welshmen were involved in the mines in Colorado and the slate quarries in Virginia.
carnkie
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And also in the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania where they had a running battle with the Irish miners. But then they weren't alone.

Edit.
It would appear that when the last Welsh speaker of Gage County died, Ellsworth Evan Closs, some of his ashes were interred in the Ancient Church of Nant Peris in North Wales.
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