Birthday, Genealogy (was: Toffee Sweets are like ....?/ Geneology question

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

While I'm posting, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jenny from Ravenclaw! Even 
there on the East Coast, there are still a couple more hours in 
it...

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sandon96" <smotgreg at h...> 
wrote:
> A bit of trivia: I was surprised to find that during Colorado's 
> gold rush of the 1880's, gold was shipped to Swansea, Wales for 
> purifying. It was the closest location for that sort of thing, 
> and so explains why there was such a large Welsh population in 
> Colorado's gold mines.

I used to have a friend who came from whatever suburb it was that 
the miners settled in ---  Arvada? --- and she told me that when she 
went to Britain for a university year, old ladies on the bus used 
to hear her speech in her Arvada (if I got the name right) accent 
and ask her from where in Wales was she from.