Willimantic's Population Doubles

Willimantic's Population Doubles

Between 1880 and 1910, Willimantic's population doubles. Immigrant groups such as the Poles, Syrians, Jews, Italians, Scots, Hungarians, Greeks, Swedes, Russians, Denmarks, Azores, Chinese, Egyptians, transform the cultural landscape.

Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, “Feeling the Unrest of the Times: The 1912 Labor Struggles in Willimantic, Connecticut,” Connecticut History Review 55, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 111–139, here 120.

1880/1910

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