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Welsh Americans are Citizen s of the United States whose ancestry originates in the northwest European nation of Wales (which is currently part of the United Kingdom ). NUMBER OF WELSH AMERICANS In the 2000 Census, 1.7 million Americans reported Welsh ancestry, 0.6% of the total US population. This compares with a population of 2.9 million in Wales. WELSH EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES The legend of voyages to America and settlement there in the 12th Century led by Madog , son of Owain Gwynedd , prince of Gwynedd , is not now generally considered to have a historical basis. In the late 17th Century there was a large emigration of Welsh Quakers to Pennsylvania , where a Welsh Tract was established. By 1700 the Welsh accounted for about one-third of the colony’s estimated population of twenty thousand. There are a number of Welsh place names in this area. There was a second wave of immigration in the late 18th Century , notably a Welsh colony named Cambria established by Morgan John Rhys in what is now Cambria County , Pennsylvania. Mass emigration from Wales to the United States got under way in the 19th Century with Ohio being a particularly popular destination. It is also said that around 20% of the population of Utah are of Welsh descent. In the early nineteenth century most of the Welsh settlers were farmers, but later on there was emigration by coal miners to the coalfields of Ohio and Pennsylvania and by slate quarrymen from North Wales to the "Slate Valley" region of Vermont and New York State . WELSH CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES One area with a strong Welsh influence is an area in Jackson and Gallia Counties, Ohio, often known as "Little Cardiganshire". The Madog Center for Welsh Studies is located at Rio Grande University here. LIST OF NOTABLE WELSH-AMERICANS See Also: List of Welsh Americans See Also: :Category:Welsh-Americans
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