Swedes of Greater Worcester Revisited

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Swedes of Greater Worcester Revisited

Author	: Eric J. Salomonsson
File Size	: 52,5 Mb
Publisher	: Arcadia Publishing
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 June 2024
ISBN	: 073853756X
Pages	: 132 pages

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Swedes of Greater Worcester Revisited by Eric J. Salomonsson Book PDF Summary

Industrial expansion in New England gave impetus to large-scale Swedish immigration by the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Swedish American communities were established in many areas, including Worcester County in Massachusetts and adjacent northern Windham County in Connecticut. Swedes of Greater Worcester Revisited, a companion to Swedes of Greater Worcester (2002), expands upon the story of the region's Swedish American population. Vintage images capture the immigration experience, family and organizational life, and religious aspects of the community.

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Swedes of Greater Worcester by Eric J. Salomonsson,William O. Hultgren,Philip C. Becker

By the late nineteenth century, Swedish immigrants began arriving by the thousands in New England, attracted by the area's heavy industry. In particular, the steel and ceramic shops of Worcester provided a livelihood for many of them. As a result, new areas of Swedish settlements developed throughout the surrounding towns.

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By 1900, Worcester was home to the largest Swedish population in the eastern United States. These new residents brought an innovative and unique spirit to the community. Industrialist John Jeppson invented an artificial emery stone, and his experiments in the abrasives field became the foundation of the Norton Company. Worcester welcomed

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Known as "the golden era," the period from 1880 to 1920 brought unbridled growth, prosperity, and national note to the second largest city in Massachusetts. Worcester's population increased by more than one hundred twenty thousand people in this forty-year period, and the city produced the greatest variety of manufactured goods in the

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