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The first Polish immigrants came to the Jamestown colony in 1608, twelve years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. [4] These early settlers were brought as skilled artisans by the English soldier–adventurer Captain John Smith, and included a glass blower, a pitch and tar maker, a soap maker and a timberman. [4]
The history of Polish immigration to the United States can be divided into three stages, beginning with the first stage in the colonial era down to 1870, small numbers of Poles and Polish subjects came to America as individuals or in small family groups, and they quickly assimilated and did not form separate communities, with the exception of Panna Maria, Texas founded in the 1850s.
Its name comes from a Polish male name Jacek (Jack). [22] (pol.) Kalisz, a place named after Kalisz, Poland. [23] Mount Pulaski, named after Casimir Pulaski a Polish nobleman and general in American Revolutionary War. [9] Mount Pulaski Township, named after Casimir Pulaski a Polish nobleman and general in American Revolutionary War. [9]
As in Poland, the overwhelming majority of Polish immigrants who settled in Chicago were culturally very devout Roman Catholics. Though almost all of the Polish Americans remained loyal to the Catholic Church after immigrating, a breakaway Catholic church was founded in 1897 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Polish parishioners founded the church to ...
Most Poles in the Netherlands are in The Hague (30,000), but Polish émigrés have been long settled in Amsterdam and industrial towns or cities like Utrecht and Groningen. Polish immigrants arrived to find employment in the country in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some 3,200 Poles lived in the Netherlands in the 1920s.
Polish immigrants began arriving in the U.S. at the turn of the last century to work in coal mines. Those who ended up in Pennsylvania worked in places like Luzerne County in northeastern ...
In the 1880s Polish immigration to Detroit started. [2] In 1904 the City of Detroit had 13,000 Polish people. By 1925 the number of Polish people increased to 115,000. [3] In the 1910 count of Detroit's population, the Polish population was not distinguished because Poland was not yet independent.
The number of Polish immigrants increased between 1945 and 1970, and again after the end of Communism in Poland in 1989. In Brazil, the majority of Polish immigrants settled in Paraná State. Smaller, but significant numbers settled in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Espírito Santo and São Paulo (state).