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Today, the greatest concentration of Finnish Americans is in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they form 16% of the population, and are the largest ancestral group in the peninsula's western counties. [8] Hancock, one city of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, could be considered a kind of "cultural capital" of the Finnish Americans. [9]
The Finnish American Heritage Center & Historical Archive is located at 601 Quincy Street on the campus of Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan. [4] The Finnish American Heritage Center includes a theater, an art gallery, and Historical Archives which house the largest collection of Finnish-North American materials in the world. [4]
The city is located within Michigan's Copper Country region. Hancock is considered a "cultural capital" for Finnish Americans. [4] The city is home to the Finnish American Heritage Center, and was home to Finlandia University from 1896 to 2023. [5] [6] Some street name signs in Hancock are bilingual, reading in both English and Finnish.
Stanton Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,590 at the 2020 census. Stanton Township has the distinction of having the highest concentration of people with Finnish ancestry of any place in the United States, at 47%. [3]
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Finnish Americans in Michigan. Pages in category "Finnish-American culture in Michigan" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
It's not uncommon for major organizations to leave Michigan Upper Peninsula completely out of maps or labeled as part of Wisconsin.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula. Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands ...
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