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The story of the journey of the "1818 Welsh" is still told today. This is a story of a group of emigrants leaving the Cilcennin area of Ceredigion in 1818. After a voyage of almost two months - and the loss of a little girl at sea - the "1818 Welsh" landed in Chesapeake Bay. They then proceeded in wagons to Pittsburgh and from there on flat boats down the Ohio River. These pioneers intended to settle in Paddy's Run in western Ohio but they never reached that community. The group decided to end their travels in Gallipolis and settled in southeast Ohio.
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