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Its county seat is Jackson. [3] The county is named for Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812 who was subsequently elected President of the United States. [4] It is known as "The Little Wales of Ohio." [5] Jackson County comprises the Jackson, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Wales' links in Ohio are still prominent to this day. They subsidised their living farming poor land by working on the highway between Chillicothe and Gallipolis. From those harsh beginnings ...
There was a large concentration of Welsh people in the Appalachian section of Southeast Ohio, such as Jackson County, Ohio, which was nicknamed "Little Wales". [ citation needed ] As late as 1900, Ohio still had 150 Welsh-speaking church congregations.
JACKSON, county-seat of Jackson, is seventy-five miles south of Columbus, on the Portsmouth branch of the C. W. & B. Railroad ; on the O. S., and on the D. & I. Railroads.
Later migration in the nineteenth century was driven by poverty and land hunger and these settlers played a vital role in the opening up and settlement of the Great American West particularly in Ohio, where Jackson County was known as Little Wales, and Kansas.
These pioneers later became known as “The 1818 Welsh” and the founders of the famous Welsh community in the counties of Jackson and Gallia in southeast Ohio.
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Apr 16, 2019 · Welsh-American Heritage Museum. (A historical marker located in Oak Hill in Jackson County, Ohio.)
