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The first Macedonian immigrants to the U.S. arrived in the late 19th century from the Bansko region of what is today Bulgarian Macedonia. These Macedonians had often been educated by American missionaries and were encouraged to migrate to the United States for higher education or to attend missionary schools. [22]
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
Scholars classify German immigration to the United States in three major waves, and Wisconsin received a significant number of immigrants from all three. The first wave from 1845 to 1855 consisted mainly of people from Southwestern Germany, including the multiple Hessen duchies, the Grand Duchy of Hesse chief among them; the second wave from ...
The construction of Milwaukee's interstate highway system, beginning in 1964 with the completion of its first seven miles of I-94, heralded an age of greater decentralization, as southeastern Wisconsin suburbs continued to proliferate along interstate corridors, providing an alternative to crowded city living. Nevertheless, a backlash against ...
The Macedonian diaspora is the consequence of either voluntary departure or forced migration over the past 100 years. It is claimed that there were six major waves of emigration. [2] The Macedonian Slavic-speaking immigrants in the first half of 20th century were considered and identified as Bulgarians or Macedonian Bulgarians.
A second wave of immigrants arrived in the 1860s and 1870s, some with families and friends from the first wave. [3] The Capuchin religious order selected the Holyland for its first permanent American settlement. [6] They founded a seminary (now St. Lawrence Seminary High School) in 1856 to train young men to become priests. [6]
Koshkonong Settlement (Norwegian: Kaskeland) [1] [2] [3] was a pioneer settlement located in Wisconsin's eastern Dane and western Jefferson counties. It took its name from Koshkonong Lake, and particularly from Koshkonong Creek. [4] The first Norwegians located in the settlement in the spring and summer of 1840. [4]
Jefferson Prairie Settlement was a pioneer colony of Norwegian-Americans located in the Town of Clinton, in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.This site and the nearby Rock Prairie settlement outside Orfordville served as centers for both Norwegian immigration and developments within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. [1]