2024 Winter Lyceum #5 - Historian Robert Humpries Presents "The Welsh in Wisconsin's Lead Mining District:
Beginning in the 1840s, immigrants from Wales began to arrive in southwestern Wisconsin, attracted by the lead-mining industry and the opportunity to acquire farmland of their own. In this presentation, Robert Humphries explains how, in Iowa County and beyond, the Welsh created thriving ethnic settlements where they maintained their culture, religious traditions and Celtic language throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Humphries will also introduce some of the Welsh who became leading citizens in the lead-mining region.
A native of Newport, Wales, Robert Humphries has lived in southwestern Wisconsin for more than 20 years. Humphries studied history at Miami University in Ohio before earning an MA in Celtic Studies from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the history of the Welsh in Iowa County being the subject of his dissertation. He has given presentations on both sides of the Atlantic, written numerous articles including a contribution to the Wisconsin Magazine of History, and wrote and co-produced a mini-documentary on the history of the Welsh in Nebraska. He is currently the director of the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre and the Archive for Welsh America, which are both located in Wymore, Nebraska.
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