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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 ...
Architect. Joseph Julius Gwizdowski. NRHP reference No. 06001332 [1] Added to NRHP. February 1, 2007. The West Side Dom Polski is a meeting hall and social club located at 3426 Junction Street in Detroit, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1] It is now the Metro Life International Church.
Poletown East, Detroit. Coordinates: 42.3687°N 83.0476°W. 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 ...
There are also Polish American newspapers and magazines, such as the Dziennik Związkowy, PL magazine, [55] Polish Weekly Chicago, the Super Express USA and Nowy Dziennik in New York and Tygodnik Polski and The Polish Times in Detroit, not to mention the Ohio University Press Series in Polish American Studies, [56] Przeglad Polski Online ...
Polish-American grocery, 1922, Detroit, Michigan. Erazm Jerzmanowski, a Polish-born industrialist who founded lighting-gas companies in Chicago, Baltimore and Indianapolis. He was the richest Pole in the United States in the 19th Century. Very few Poles opened shops, restaurants, stores, or other entrepreneurial ventures.
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.
Location. The Polish Home Army Museum in Orchard Lake, Michigan is located in the St. Mary's Preparatory Ark Building (#9), 3535 Indian Trail, Orchard Lake, MI 48324. To make an appointment or for information, contact 248-683-0412. [3]
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Polish Americans in Metro Detroit, Michigan. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.