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Home to Chicago's Polish Village, impressive examples of sacred and industrial architecture, and the legendary Olson Waterfall, Avondale is often tagged as "the neighborhood that built Chicago." Images of America: Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village she Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village: Images of America

by Jacob Kaplan, Daniel Pogorzelski, Rob Reid and Elisa Addlesperger

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Chicago's Polish Downtown Chicago's Polish Downtown: Images of America

by Victoria Granacki

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Slavic Village began as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, a parcel of land surveyed and populated with East Coast residents seeking adventure and fortune in the 19th century. Cleveland's Slavic Village: Images of America

By Sandy Mitchell in association with the Slavic Village Historical Society

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Detroit's Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood That Touched a Nation Detroit's Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood That Touched a Nation

by Brianne Turczynski

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Mount Elliott Cemetery is Detroit's oldest extant cemetery, started by the Catholic community in 1841. The consecrated ground is named for architect Robert T. Elliott, who was instrumental in purchasing the land and was the first interment. Detroit's Mount Elliott Cemetery by Cecile Wendt Jensen: Images of America

by Cecile Wendt Jensen

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Mount Olivet was the second Catholic cemetery developed by the Mount Elliott Cemetery Association. Now surrounded by city, Mount Olivet was nestled in the countryside when it opened in 1888. Directions in 1900 instructed visitors to reach the cemetery via Detroit's Mount Olivet Cemetery by Cecile Wendt Jensen: Images of America

by Cecile Wendt Jensen

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Detroit's Polonia by Cecile Wendt Jensen: Images of America Detroit's Polonia by Cecile Wendt Jensen: Images of America

by Cecile Wendt Jensen

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Hamtramck Hamtramck

by Greg Kowalski
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Hamtramck Through The Years - Softcover Hamtramck Through The Years - Softcover

by Greg Kowalski
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Surrounded completely by the city of Detroit, Hamtramck is today home to 24,000 residents, but its small size-just 2.1 square miles-belies its expansive history and the influence this remarkable community has had far beyond its borders. Hamtramck: The Driven City: The Making of America Series

by Greg Kowalski
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Hamtramck: Soul Of A City: Images of America Hamtramck: Soul Of A City: Images of America

by Greg Kowalski
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Hamtramck: The World War II Years: Images of America Hamtramck: The World War II Years: Images of America

by Greg Kowalski
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Hamtramck: Then And Now Hamtramck: Then And Now

by Greg Kowalski
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Fueled by phenomenal growth in the early part of the 20th century, Hamtramck went from being a farming community to a major industrial city in the space of a decade. Thousands of immigrants flooded into the city to work in the new auto factories. Legendary Locals of Hamtramck

by Greg Kowalski
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Founded in 1798, Hamtramck shrank in size even as it grew in population. Stuffing tens of thousands of people in 2.1 square miles is bound to breed conflict, and many of those conflicts boiled over into murder. Sunday, September 7, 1884, was supposed to Murder in Hamtramck: Historic Crimes of Passion & Coldblooded Killings

by Greg Kowalski

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Poles In Minnesota Poles In Minnesota

By John Radzilowski

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Polish Pittsburgh: Images Of America Series Polish Pittsburgh: Images Of America Series

By Stanley States, PhD

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The site of the largest concentration of Chicago’s legendary Polish population, it is also the place where immigrants left the inner city’s ethnic enclaves to take part in the American dream. It is one of the hidden gems, offering up a wealth of history, Portage Park: Images of America

by Daniel Pogorzelski, John Maloof

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The National Prohibition Act was no match for Hamtramck. Once a small farming village, Hamtramck grew to be a major industrial city in just a decade. With that came enormous social problems and a peculiar concept that the legality of alcohol Prohibition In Hamtramck: Gangsters, Gunfights And Getaways

by Greg Kowalski
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Saint Florian Parish was founded in 1907 to serve the Detroit area's rapidly expanding Polish Catholic community. Its first pastor was the Rev. Bernard Zmijewski, who was an immigrant from Poznan in northwest Poland. Ground for the church was broken in St Florian Parish A Century Of Service - 100th Anniversary Commemorative Album

Historian and Author - Dr. Thaddeus C Radzilowski

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The Anthracite Coal Region's Slavic Community presents a pictorial history of Slavic people in hard coal country, conveying the unique and rich culture brought to the area with the arrival of these diverse communities. The Anthracite Coal Region's Slavic Community

by VBrian Arden

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The Kashubian people in Southeastern Minnesota are a small yet distinct group of people; small, because in a world-view they are few in number, emigrated from a small area in Poland, and settled in a relatively small area similar to the area they left... The Kashubian Polish Community of Southeastern Minnesota: Images of America - Kaszub

by The Polish Cultural Institute

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The first group of Polish immigrants to come to Chicopee arrived in 1880. These Poles filled many of the manufacturing jobs in the city's two large textile mills. In less than 30 years from their arrival, this aggressive, self-assured group boasted more The Polish Community of Chicopee: Images of America

by Stephen R. Jendrysik

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The Polish Community of Gary is a vibrantly illustrated tale of the history of the Midwest's Steel City and its Polish-Catholic residents. It reveals the journey of hopeful and hard-working Polish immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s, established... The Polish Community of Gary: Images of America

by John C. Trafny

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The Polish Community of New Britain by Jonathon Shea and Barbara Proko - Factory jobs in "the Hardware City of the World" began attracting Polish immigrants to New Britain in the 1890s. The Poles soon became the city's largest ethnic group, centering The Polish Community of New Britain: Images of America

by Jonathon Shea and Barbara Proko

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Refugees from Poland first came to Salem in the 1880s when the former maritime port became a leading industrial center. These immigrants often arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs and worked some of the most dangerous factory jobs. How The Polish Community Of Salem: Images of America

by Felicia L Wilczenski and Emily A Murphy

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Near the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Polish immigrants embarked upon the American Dream in Worcester as the city's lowest-paid mill workers. Slowly, they carved out their own "Polonia," with Millbury Street as the cente The Polish Community Of Worcester: Images of America

By Barbara Proko, John Kraska Jr. and Janice Baniukiewicz Stickles

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For decades, the city of Hamtramck, MI, has had a legendary association with bars. Its 2.1 square miles was packed at one point with at least 200 bars, clubs and other places that served alcohol in some form. During Prohibition, there were hundreds They Drank to That: Bars, Beer and the Beat of Hamtramck

by Greg Kowalski

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