Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Where Did Czech and Slovak people settle in America?

Click on my title to play with a way-cool immigration map that allows you to see where immigrants from a certain country settled in America over time. Just select 'Czechoslovakia' as the country of origin and then move the decade cursor to see where all the Czechs and Slovaks settled.

A Slovak family shrine
built for a new life in America

And what happened when the new immigrants arrived and there was no place familiar to worship? They had to build their own, often to home scale. This Slovak family shrine is on display in the Wisconsin Historical Museum. It was built by a new Slovak immigrant obviously missing the customs and faith he had known back home.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I loved seeing this post, with the picture of the family shrine. I had fun playing with that immigration map too. Part of my family is Slovak and they originally settled in PA in the early 20th century. I would love to visit the Czech and Slovak Republics some day.

I just found your blog this past weekend, while browsing other blogs having to do with Americans going to that part of the world. :)

Karen said...

Welcome Annabel, glad to have you as a reader.

 
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