Arabic-speaking Syrian immigrants settled here on Willard St. by 1893 in small, crowded multiple-family row homes. They created a vibrant neighborhood alongside Black Americans and European immigrants. Searching for economic opportunities in the . . . — — Map (db m238603) HM
The first demographic waves of German immigrants occurred in the 1680s when they settled in Pennsylvania. In the nineteenth century, Germans continued to come to America in waves. Quite a few settled in this area between 1836 and 1840. The most . . . — — Map (db m226796) HM
In the early 1900s, Arabic speaking
Christian Syrians established a
community here, part of a
movement of Middle Easterners
contributing to the growth of
cities in Indiana and U.S. Syrians
began their lives in this city as
poor pack peddlers . . . — — Map (db m226133) HM
Dr. James H. Ford
Dr. James H. Ford erected 73 W. Canal in 1887. The first floor was his office and the second was a "carriage repository" for F.M. Beck's harness and buggy stock. Dr. Ford held a medical record in Indiana by assisting the . . . — — Map (db m215049) HM
As German immigrants entered the United States in large numbers in the mid 19th century, many found their home in Richmond. Here, the city's trade and industrial opportunities offered a favorable climate for German residents looking to start a new . . . — — Map (db m232949) HM
Located south of Richmond's historic downtown, the Old Richmond Historic District encompasses more than 200 acres and 500 buildings associated with the development of Richmond from 1819 to 1935. The district includes the land associated with the . . . — — Map (db m232950) HM
Dedicated to the Swedish immigrant ancestors who settled in southeast Iowa and to Sandra Harris who has so generously supported the Swedish Heritage Society. September 17, 2014 — — Map (db m238981) HM
In 1847, the Dutch band left their farms and homes in the Netherlands because they wanted to worship their own way, and they needed more economic opportunity. Their determination led them to this part of the Iowa prairie. For the first few years of . . . — — Map (db m236388) HM
In the spring of 1847 four sailing vessels carrying 800 freedom-seeking Hollanders landed at Baltimore. They were met by Dominie Henry Peter Scholte, their faithful leader, who led them across the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and down the Ohio and up . . . — — Map (db m235885) HM
The story of the Dutch emigration to Pella started in 1814 when article 133 was included in the first Constitution of the United Netherlands, stating: "The Christian Reformed Religion is that of the Sovereign." This (now called the Dutch Reformed . . . — — Map (db m236381) HM
A dark era befell Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge, under the dictator Pol Pot, ruled the country from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot's genocidal regime led to the deaths of nearly 2 million people out of a population of just 7 million. So many people were . . . — — Map (db m237953) HM
The Robert D. Ray Asian Garden not only highlights the importance of diversity in our community and acknowledges the contributions that Asian Americans have made to Iowa, but also serves as a lasting monument honoring Governor Ray's visionary . . . — — Map (db m237927) HM
Overview Many immigrants found community in churches where people spoke their language and held familiar beliefs. Women played very important roles in building community in Norwegian Lutheran churches, even though they were not allowed to vote . . . — — Map (db m236298) HM
Overview Mikkel and Hage Sennes emigrated from Norway with a variety of skills that helped them eventually thrive in America. They also learned new skills once they settled in the U.S. They built this blacksmith shop on their farm in Minnesota . . . — — Map (db m236609) HM
All Things to All People The mercantile has a long history in Decorah. The first mercantile, the Pioneer Store, opened in the Days smokehouse shortly after the Days and the Painters founded Decorah in 1849 and William Painter . . . — — Map (db m240300) HM
The Founding of Luther College Luther College opened in September 1861 in a vacant parsonage at Halfway Creek, Wisconsin, near La Crosse, with 11 students. The Norwegian Synod, the governing body of the Norwegian Lutheran . . . — — Map (db m242101) HM
Overview New immigrants often moved to existing ethnic communities where faith, food, and culture were familiar. Sometimes, these new immigrants would need to navigate shared living space and class differences with strangers along with living . . . — — Map (db m236297) HM
Overview Hans and Anna Haugan were in their fifties when they immigrated to America. Not everyone who immigrated to America stayed. By some estimates, nearly one in five Norwegian immigrants returned home. Some left because they earned enough . . . — — Map (db m236300) HM
Overview Nineteenth century Norwegian farmers grew food for their families instead of for income. Many farms in Norway used small water-powered mills to grind grain, press apples and process cloth. These mills were usually only big enough to . . . — — Map (db m236295) HM
Overview Northeast Iowa was home to many different Native American groups that utilized the natural resources of this area for thousands of years. After Native Americans were forced out of the region by the U.S. government, European settlers . . . — — Map (db m236400) HM
Overview In the mid-19th century, a group of Norwegian immigrants who followed the state church in Norway wanted to create a system of schools associated with the church. Congregation members wanted to send their children to public schools to . . . — — Map (db m236299) HM
Overview Vesterheim was the first institution in the United States to collect and preserve buildings by moving them to a museum setting. The Eriksen-Hansen Stabbur protected grain and meat from pests and moisture by elevating them off the . . . — — Map (db m236399) HM
Overview Native Americans lived in northeast Iowa for thousands of years before being forced off their land by the U.S. government to make room for non-native settlers. Colonizers arrived in this area in 1848 and came from numerous countries in . . . — — Map (db m236608) HM
Overview Many buildings on farms in Norway were designed to serve one purpose. This building was probably used to dry grain for brewing beer. While many Norwegians and Norwegian Americans brewed their own beer, others fought for temperance. . . . — — Map (db m236672) HM
Overview Norway's population nearly tripled during the 19th century. This increase, combined with restrictive inheritance laws and lack of farmable land, made it extremely difficult to escape rural poverty. Most Norwegian immigrants were from . . . — — Map (db m236296) HM
Look up to see sails. Look down and around you to see the outline of a small ship. Imagine what it would have been like to immigrate to the United States on a sailing ship in the 1800s. The journey may take 6 to 14 weeks. Why are you leaving your . . . — — Map (db m236682) HM
Vesterheim explores the diversity of American immigration through the lens of the Norwegian-American experience and showcases the best in historic and contemporary folk arts in the Norwegian tradition.
Overview The Homestead Act of 1862 made government land taken from Native Americans available for free if it was used for five years. This law allowed millions of European immigrants to settle in the prairies and woodlands of the central . . . — — Map (db m236673) HM
Mary Mullen was born to Mary Ann Mullen in 1899 in New York City. As an infant, she was taken to the New York Foundling Hospital, to be cared for by the Sisters of Charity. Soon, she was selected for placement in a Western home, and traveled to . . . — — Map (db m212528) HM
Walter White was the son of George and Annie, both English immigrants and parents of eight children. In 1905, the family lived in Mid-Town Manhattan, George worked as a coachman in Central Park, and the oldest daughter Mary, worked as a cash-girl. . . . — — Map (db m212471) HM
The Jean Charles Germain Bergeron House, one of the oldest surviving Acadian dwellings in Louisiana, was moved to the Rural Life Museum in 2005 from the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, three miles from Labadieville in Lafourche Parish.
The . . . — — Map (db m92483) HM
Established 1871. Present church built in 1922 in the Spanish architectural style to honor the early settlers of Sabine from 1865 to 1870. The original Catholic community was served by a missionary priest, Father Francois Le Vezouet. Native of . . . — — Map (db m214305) HM
This park is dedicated to Israel Shevenell, (1826-1912) one of the first Franco-American immigrants to Biddeford. Shevenell walked to this town from Canada in 1845. — — Map (db m186163) HM
Max and Elke Schiff were Jewish immigrants from Minsk who settled in Annapolis in 1913. Their goal in coming to America was to provide a complete education for their seven children.
These direct descendants of Max and Elke attended St. . . . — — Map (db m232488) HM
The merchant mix at Lexington Market has always included large numbers of immigrant-owned businesses, dating back to the Market's founding. Early records depict a melting pot of business owner nationalitiesfrom German-owned butcher shops to Italian . . . — — Map (db m243487) HM
In 1791, at the invitation of Bishop John Carroll, the first bishop in the United States, Sulpician priests came to Baltimore from France to found St. Mary's Seminary, the nation's oldest Catholic seminary. After establishing the seminary in a . . . — — Map (db m219570) HM
Born into an affluent family in Haiti, Mary Elizabeth Lange fled to escape a revolution. She settled in Baltimore, where by 1818 she was educating black children in her own home. In 1828, Mary Elizabeth helped start the first black . . . — — Map (db m212266) HM
In the summer of 1913 at the corner of N. Collington and Ashland Avenues (six blocks east of this park), Baltimore's Painted Screen tradition was born. Grocer William Oktavec, recently arrived from New York via Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), . . . — — Map (db m232414) HM
Where you are standing was open land until the early 1870s when the McDonough Place Land Company constructed blocks of rowhouses for workers drawn to Baltimore by growing industry like canning, shipbuilding, brewing, and the building trades. . . . — — Map (db m232412) HM
During the Baltimore Railroad Riots of 1877, the park served as an encampment for the MD 5th Regiment, where they helped guard the South Baltimore rail lines after assisting with the riots downtown. On August 1st the MD 5th put on an exhibition . . . — — Map (db m212920) HM
Making it Work
Located on site were most of the resources necessary to support the production of pig iron, including iron ore, water, and marble stone. Anthracite coal transported on the North Central Railway from Pennsylvania was used as a . . . — — Map (db m219138) HM
During the 1800's, the land now known as the Oregon Ridge Park was an active mining village. Between the years of 1840-1870, The Oregon Mining Company mined iron and marble.
An industrial village was developed to house their Workers . . . — — Map (db m219154) HM
The Baltimore Embroidery Company
Established by John Tanner and his wife, Lina Barth, circa 1914, manufactured a variety of lace and embroidery products on this site until 1997, including U.S. Armed Forces insignia, U.S. Olympic emblems and . . . — — Map (db m212587) HM
A group of people, mostly of German
heritage, banded together to establish the
"Dutch Lutheran church called St. John's of
Sweet Air. The deed is dated January 20, 1855.
The deed called for approximately a half
acre of ground near the center . . . — — Map (db m213196) HM
The town of Cecilton owes its existence to Augustine Herman, a 1633 immigrant to America. A wealthy merchant, diplomat, cartographer, and explorer, he also proposed the creation of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal a century before it was . . . — — Map (db m155453) HM
This mural tells the stories of 3 refugees who live here in Maryland, who were interviewed for this project. Georges, a former mayor of his city in eastern Congo (DRC), fled with his family when the war came to his region. Mai, from Myanmar (aka . . . — — Map (db m114527) HM
A Nation of Immigrants
America was built on the hopes and the dreams and the sweat of the brows of immigrants who came for a better life a life free from religious and political strife, prejudice, and persecution.
For forty years, . . . — — Map (db m145914) HM
Some of the world's best soil is right here in the Connecticut River Valley.
The valley's soil made it a location of choice for the Pocumtuck and other Indian peoples who cultivated native maize (corn), beans, squash and tobacco. English . . . — — Map (db m230713) HM
Past, Present, Future is a mural designed by youth artists in the Teen Public Art Program at The Community Art Center in the fall of 2021. Lead by artist and Teen Public Art Program Manager, Jack O'Hearn, each teen created their own artwork based . . . — — Map (db m215198) HM
To Harvard University students faculty staff alumni whose generosity fifty years ago opened doors to student refugees from Nazi persecution. May this tree express in grace and beauty the abiding and heartfelt gratitude of the recipients. — — Map (db m215387) HM WM
University Hall (1813-1815) was designed by Charles Bulfinch (Harvard Class of 1781) and is a National Historic Landmark. The statue is by Daniel Chester French. It represents John Harvard, of whom no known likeness exists. The model was Sherman . . . — — Map (db m215386) HM
Beginnings
Cambridge was founded in 1630 as a new settlement meant by the Puritan leaders in Boston to be their permanent capital. The site chosen was a low hill three miles up the Charles River and hence safe from attack by sea. Streets . . . — — Map (db m215376) HM
Newtowne
One of the Neatest and Best Compacted Towns
So wrote William Wood in New England's Prospect in 1633. At this time, sixty families occupied the first planned community in America, in which the houses were required to . . . — — Map (db m215372) HM
In 1989 Oliver Place was renamed Ping On Alley, "Alley of Peace and Security, in honor
of Boston's first Chinese immigrants. They
pitched their tents here beginning in 1875, and
since that time this site has been central to the
lives of a . . . — — Map (db m176300) HM
Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have offered hope and refuge to immigrants seeking to begin new lives. This park is a gift to the people of the Commonwealth and the City of Boston from the Armenian-American community of . . . — — Map (db m215588) HM WM
1600
Native Americans
Native Americans inhabited this area for at least 10,000 years before the arrival of Europeans. Although contact with European explorers and fishermen in the early 1600s resulted in heavy loss of life from European . . . — — Map (db m215646) HM
A grant from Boston's Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund made possible the 2012 restoration of the commemorative plaque depicting events at Noddle's Island, the area that eventually became East Boston. The plaque was designed by Theodore Cotillo . . . — — Map (db m215803) HM
Beginning with Native Americans, a succession of people have made their homes here as shipbuilding and other industries replaced farming and fishing. East Boston, which was originally five islands, has welcomed immigrants from afar, creating a . . . — — Map (db m215769) HM
Beginning with Native Americans, a succession of people have made their homes here as shipbuilding and other industries replaced farming and fishing. East Boston, which was originally five islands, has welcomed immigrants from afar, creating a . . . — — Map (db m215775) HM
Beginning with Native Americans, a succession of people have made their homes here as shipbuilding and other industries replaced farming and fishing. East Boston, which was originally five islands, has welcomed immigrants from afar, creating a . . . — — Map (db m215801) HM
Boston Harbor has seen many vessels over time, from canoes transporting Native Americans to the islands and fully-rigged sailing ships bound for ports around the world, to steamships bringing goods and new Bostonians to the docks. The harbor . . . — — Map (db m215784) HM
Latin America and the Caribbean
1900s - The second half of the 20th Century has seen a steady rise in population from all the countries of Central and South America, Mexico and the islands of the Caribbean.
Italy
1900s-2000s - . . . — — Map (db m215760) HM
When waves of Italian immigrants began settling in the North End in the 1880s, they brought the centuries-old game of bocce with them. Bocce provided a tangible link to their past and helped meld a community among those speaking dialects from . . . — — Map (db m215183) HM
Civic Service House, one of several settlement houses in Boston, was founded in 1901 to provide services for local residents and newly-arrived immigrants. In 1905, Frank Parsons, a nationally known social and political reformer, founded the . . . — — Map (db m215651) HM
Roxbury, settled in 1630, is older than Boston. The early town centered around the meetinghouse in Eliot Square, where roads from inland towns merged into the only overland route to Boston.
For two hundred years Roxbury was mainly a rural . . . — — Map (db m214954) HM
Boston Then and Now
Maritime commerce through Boston Harbor was the lifeblood of early New England. Goods and services change with each century, yet the port's economic vitality endures.
By 1900, Boston had successfully transformed . . . — — Map (db m215549) HM
The Keany Square Building stands at the northeast corner of historic Mill Pond. A marshy body of water that existed until the early 19th century, Mill Pond's shape is now roughly defined by Merrimac Street, North Washington Street, and . . . — — Map (db m215174) HM
Swedish pioneer Charles Paulson purchased one hundred acres of land here in 1884 and constructed this cabin for his family home. Built of hand hewn cedar logs securely dovetailed at the corners, the house was occupied by Paulson and his wife until . . . — — Map (db m206179) HM
A native of Ireland and a Protestant, John Johnston (1762-1828) arrived on the Lake Superior frontier in the early 1790s. He married the daughter of a powerful Chippewa chief and settled here in 1793. Johnston's knowledge of the Chippewa and the . . . — — Map (db m213414) HM
This sauna from 1900 was originally located on the Alto farm in Beechwood, Michigan, donated by William and Senia Maki and moved to the museum in 1986. This is a traditional Finnish bath house. — — Map (db m213440) HM
On this site for 114 years stood the historic German-English schoolhouse. Built in 1868 by the German-English School Association, the structure was used as a school and meeting house for the pioneer German families of Grand Rapids. In 1880 it was . . . — — Map (db m240641) HM
During Grand Rapids' growth at the dawn of the 20th century, the west side of the Grand River became home to a large population of Polish and German immigrants. Among those Polish immigrants were Tomasz and Julia Kaicel, parents of Stanley Ketchel . . . — — Map (db m243434) HM
From the late 1860's to the early 1870. there was a critical need
for experienced underground miners.
As large numbers of the Irish labor force in the area had departed for jobs in open pit mining in Colorado, the Cleveland Mining Company went . . . — — Map (db m226659) HM
The Iron Range opened in the 1840s, but it was not until the early 1860s that the first Italians settled the area.
Coming from
Tuscany, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria, Naples,
and Sicily. They settled in Negaunee, Ishpeming, and
Gwinn . . . — — Map (db m226615) HM
Frederic Baraga was a lawyer, an artist and a Roman Catholic priest who came to the U.S. from present-day Slovenia in 1830. Baraga (1797-1868) served Native Americans in the Great Lakes region and wrote A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language . . . — — Map (db m206057) HM
David Allmendinger founded the Ann Arbor Organ Works in 1872 in his home (building on right) on the northwest corner of Washington and First Streets. Allmendinger's reed organs and pianos were sold all over the country until displaced by . . . — — Map (db m236147) HM
Mexican Detroit
In the late 1910s and early 1920s
Detroit became a hub for Mexican and
Tejano migration. Many came to work
on sugar beet farms before taking
factory jobs. Those born in Texas that
were of Mexican descent identified . . . — — Map (db m239857) HM
Who Lived Here
Thousands of years ago, glaciers and inland seas covered much of North America. These early forces shaped the land to form lakes, rives, soil deposits, and land features. Sandy soil at the southern end of the Rum River . . . — — Map (db m236855) HM
Minnesota Territory 1849-1858On March 3, 1849, during his last hours in office. President James K. Polk signed a bill adding a new name to the American political landscape Minnesota Territory. A vast land, it stretched from the St. . . . — — Map (db m205213) HM
"The production of a forage plant so hardy as Grimm Alfalfa is almost without parallel in plant history... It is impossible to compute in dollars and cents what it has meant to the nation."
Everett Edwards, 1938
U.S. Department . . . — — Map (db m212539) HM
The Brick Farmhouse
The brick farmhouse before you was built by the Grimm family sometime around 1875. It replaced a small log cabin where the family had lived since they first acquired the property in 1857. More than just a new home, this . . . — — Map (db m212381) HM
Missionaries were among the first to arrive in the Leech Lake Area and their work had a lasting impact on those who had settled there. Although their primary purpose was to spread the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ, they also served as . . . — — Map (db m235755) HM
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which gave an applicant free title to 160 acres of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River. Twelve years later, on August 6, 1874, both Henry Stovall & George LeBorneau . . . — — Map (db m235756) HM
[Panel 1]
View of Almelund, 1902.
Photographer: Seth Cedarholm
Relationships that began in the eastern United States sometimes resulted in two or more families settling together when they reached Minnesota. An example . . . — — Map (db m235615) HM
Albert Abdallah immigrated to the United States as a teenager from Lebanon, arriving in Minneapolis at the turn of the last century. He entered the confectionary business at a soda fountain in downtown Minneapolis, where he met . . . — — Map (db m241711) HM
The history of the city and events in our past have determined how we arrived at this point in time, as well as how we make decisions and view the world today.
Mill Ruins Park Public Archaeology Program, . . . — — Map (db m232482) HM
"The Flour City is a good place for the small wage earner and he is prospering so well that he does not hesitate to invest his money in a home with the idea of remaining here forever and a day."
Minneapolis Tribune, . . . — — Map (db m246355) HM
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