 But the mill dominated the landscape in those days, and the settlement around it was called Langdon's Mills.The settlement had just begun when about fifty Welshmen, with their wives and children, came from North Wales, many from Dolwyddelan.Morris J. Rowlands, a son of one of the colonists, wrote in 1912,Early in the summer of 1845 several families from North Wales met accidentally at Liverpool, England, seeking passage as immigrants to the United States of America.