Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Cleveland

Life in the city

Cleveland developed quickly from the year 1832 onwards, when the work on the Ohio and Erie Canal was completed. When the

Y Teithiwr Americanaidd (The American Traveler) was published in 1837, the Rev. Edward Jones noted that there were a multitude of Welsh people there and by 1872 about 400 were living in the city according to Iorthryn Gwynedd. We can assume that the iron mills, the oil works and the factories drew them to the city.

Two Welsh churches were established in Cleveland during the 1870s.

More information can be found in Hanes Cymry America (A History of the Welsh in America) >>

Digitized Materials

NLW 6426D: Letters from emigrants &c
Two letters written in Welsh, dated 24 July and 25 December 1879, from T. Evans, Cleveland to his family in Llanwenog parish in Cardiganshire.

A short description of Cleveland can be found in:

Edward Jones, Y Teithiwr Americanaidd (Aberystwyth, 1837), p.22 (Only available in Welsh)

R. D. Thomas, Hanes Cymry America (A History of the Welsh in America) (Utica, 1872), pp.115 - 117
The book also includes information about

Newburgh and

Bedford, Cuyahoga County.