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I drove into the downtown area of Wymore, Nebraska in a sun-baked Sunday morning. The town, one of several beautiful small towns on U.S. Route 77 marked in my travel planner, was extremely quiet. Only few residents gathering in front of town’s only grocery store can be seen in the laid-back streets shrouded with an uninterruptable atmosphere of peacefulness. I parked in front of the Wymore Welsh Heritage Centre and was very much charmed by the wonderful history of this small town.

Wymore, the “Welsh Capitol of the Great Plains,” was found on April 7, 1881 on land donated by Sam Wymore. Immigrants from Wales settled in this railroad town in the late 19th century and the town’s Welsh tradition was preserved in archives and documents in the Wymore Welsh Heritage Centre.