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Origin of the Polish Settlement. The City of Wyandotte is situated along the Detroit River and the old Michigan Central Railroad. Wyandotte is located about 15 miles to the south of Detroit. At the 1940 census, the population of the city was approximately 35,000 people. Of this total there were over 9,000 Poles grouped within the neighborhoods ...
Ralph Adams Cram. Architectural style. Late Gothic Revival, Bungalow / Craftsman, Polish Cathedral style. NRHP reference No. 84001865 [1] Added to NRHP. September 13, 1984. St. Florian Church is a Roman Catholic Church at 2626 Poland Street in Hamtramck, Michigan. The church was designed by Ralph Adams Cram of the firm Cram and Ferguson.
Poletown East is an neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, bordering the enclave city of Hamtramck. The area was named after the Polish immigrants who originally lived in the area. A portion of residential area known as Poletown became the General Motors Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant in 1981 with those residents relocated by General Motors and ...
Hamtramck Fire Department. Hamtramck (/ h æ m ˈ t r æ m ɪ k / ham-TRAM-ik) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.An enclave of Detroit, Hamtramck is located roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of downtown Detroit, and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides.
Hamtramck, Michigan. Website. www.piastinstitute.org. The Piast Institute is a national research and policy center for Polish and Polish-American affairs based in Hamtramck, Michigan, in the United States, an enclave located within the city of Detroit. The institute was founded in 2003 by Dr. Thaddeus Radzilowski and Mrs. Virginia Skrzyniarz.
As of 2001, the Metro Detroit area had the U.S.'s second largest Polish ethnic concentration after Chicago. [28] By the 21st century, the Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties formed the center of Michigan's Polish populations. Many Poles had moved from Hamtramck, and Troy became the center of the Polish-American community. [29]
Box office. $692,588 [1] Polish Wedding is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 1998 and Berlin International Film Festival on February 12. It was released in the U.S. on July 17.
Democratic. Robert William Kozaren (June 5, 1934 – 2007) was a Polish-American Democratic politician born in Detroit, Michigan. [1][2] He served as mayor of the city of Hamtramck, Michigan, from 1980 to 1997. [3] Elected to nine terms, he was the longest-serving mayor of Hamtramck. Kozaren was president of the city council (and a former ...