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This museum is 22 km. from Trvelin on route 259, framed by Valle Hermoso and Cerro Gorsedd and Gwnw (throne of clouds) and surrounded by a natural environment where birds such as wild ducks, herons, and others nest only a few metres from the museum.
It is constituted by a replica of the old semi industrial family flour mills that were abundant in the region between the end of the XIX century and mid XX century. It was built manually to produce flour with 2000 years old techniques. In the interior you can see different elements used daily in Welsh homes, musical instruments, a sewing machine, farming machinery and carriages of the time, a testimony of the history of the first Welsh colonists who arrived here at the end of the XIX century. The laboriosity of the Welsh colonists turned this waste land of Chubut into a prosperous wheat producing area, thanks to the numerous irrigating channels they constructed. They produced an excellent quality wheat that obtained international prizes in Paris and Chicago. Unfortuntely a political decision in 1949 declared the area to the south of the river Colorado a "non-wheat zone". This brought about the decadence of flour mills and agriculture, and forced the inhabitants to devote to cattle raising. |
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