This article reports on the history of immigration to the mill town of Holyoke, Massachusetts. In the 1840s, the Irish were among the first to arrive, many of whom worked to build railroads. They were followed by French Canadians, Eastern Europeans, Germans, Scots, and more recently, Latin Americans, and Southeast Asians.
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