In May 1893, a short item in the Shenandoah Evening Herald recorded a familiar scene in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region. A group of Polish immigrants – about thirty men – arrived in Shenandoah after spending two weeks in quarantine at Ellis Island in New York. They stepped off the train into a Schuylkill County mining town that had already acquired a sizable Polish identity. Immigrants arriving in New York City in this era – From the Statue of Libert…
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