From Cracow to Polish Town

From Cracow to Polish Town
Author: Thomas Hollowak
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781887124546

This history tells the story of a small group of Polish immigrants and their families who created a Polish enclave in New Kent County, Virginia beginning in 1915. Their settlement was along what is today Polish Town Road. They were truck farmers and founded a Polish Roman Catholic Church, St. John Kanty and Cemetery. Only the church's cemetery were many of the original settlers and their children are buried.

Jamestown Pioneers from Poland

Jamestown Pioneers from Poland
Author: Polish American Congress
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780282007508

Excerpt from Jamestown Pioneers From Poland: Published by the American Congress in Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Poles in America, Jamestown, Virginia, Sunday, September 28th, 1958 The Jamestown story reveals that the love of liberty was prevalent in the colony. Thus, the Poles found themselves in congenial company. When, however, at the time of the constituting of the General Assembly full liberty and equality for all of the colonists was mitigated against, the Poles intrepidly asserted their rights and won enfranchisement. These details are more fully set forth and plained in the following pages of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Wheeling's Polonia

Wheeling's Polonia
Author: William Hal Gorby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN: 9781949199390

William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians' traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting. Wheeling was a center of West Virginia's labor movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city's active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the center of the state's Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city's history of crime and organized vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighborhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition. At once a deeply textured evocation of the city's ethnic institutions and an engagement with larger questions about belonging, change, and justice, Wheeling's Polonia is an inspiring account of a diverse working-class culture and the immigrants who built it.