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The Polish Community of Salem
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Felicia L. Wilczenski
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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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 litt
Polish Community of Salem
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Felicia L. Wilczenski
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04 - Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

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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 litt
The Polish Community of Worcester
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Barbara Proko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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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
The Polish Community of Chicopee
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Stephen R. Jendrysik
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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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 mill
The Polish Community of New Britain
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Jonathan Shea
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

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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