Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Immigrants

The Waldensians in North Carolina

The largest Waldensian colony in the world outside of Italy–Valdese, NC–was officially incorporated as a town on February 17, 1920.

The most famous Welsh settlement in Ameria is Brynyffynnon in eastern Tennessee, established in 1855 by Samuel Roberts of Llanbrynmair.

Hungarians called the US immigration from 1880 to about 1915 the ‘Great Economic Immigration.’ 650,000-700,000 Hungarians came to America.

Thousands of families, most Eastern European immigrants, streamed into the shadows of Black Mountain, KY between the World Wars to mine coal.

The boat was soon to leave, & the Cuban girl who’d learned to love this kind American woman couldn’t leave because she hadn’t been vaccinated.

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