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Pages: 132
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 132
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Polish settlement in Worcester County had humble beginnings: a small group of German Poles in the 1870s. Over the next decades, thousands of Russian and Austria
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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 mill
Language: en
Pages: 130
Pages: 130
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10 - Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
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Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
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