The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Center

The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in downtown Wymore held a thank you meal for those who supported the soon-to-be constructed Heritage Inn. The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project, located at 307 South 7th Street, is the only cultural resource in the United States dedicated to interpreting the cultural legacy of Welsh immigrants on the Great Plains.The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project owns and operates the historic District 81 Pleasant View Schoolhouse, a fully furnished 1900-era one-room schoolhouse museum. The interior of the schoolhouse has just been restored to its original appearance. It can be found in McCandless Park in Wymore.Adjoining the Welsh Heritage Centre is a purpose-built archives building opened in 2013 and funded by generous donations and a grant from the Margaret and Martha Thomas Foundation. The state-of-the-art 24ft x 24ft facility is built using insulated concrete form (ICF) construction and features FEMA-compliant (tornado-resistant) doors, a non-aqueous fire-suppression system, and temperature and humidity control. Materials are stored in archival-quality, acid-free boxes and folders to ensure our growing collection of Welsh-American documents and artifacts is preserved for future generations.The archive is an invaluable resource for genealogical or historical research and is the only repository of the Welsh-language newspaper, Y Drych, in microfilm format, with issues dating back to 1851.

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