Immigrants to the Lower East Side

Although now known primarily for the influence of Jewish immigrants, the Lower East side has been home to American's from numerous areas of the world.

The Emigrants of 1852-1853

Originating from Ohio & Indiana, the Clark Skidmore party of 1852 – 75 people & 13 mule wagons – was the 1st wagon train to gross the Sierra-Nevada via the Walker River-Sonora route. 35 days were spent to blaze a ...

Chinese Immigrants

Chinese Immigrants came to Deadwood to make their fortune. After burial in Mt. Moriah, with appropriate ceremonies, the remains were removed for reburial in their home village in China. Not more than two bodies remain in the Chinese Section.

Marker can ...

Grants

Population 11,451 Elevation 6500 ft

Located just north of the great lava bed known as the Malpais, Grants began as a coaling station for the Santa Fe Railroad. Around 1880 it was known as Grant's Camp, after the Canadian bridge contractor ...

Grants

Population 11,451 Elevation 6500 ft

Located just north of the great lava bed known as the Malpais, Grants began as a coaling station for the Santa Fe Railroad. Around 1880 it was known as Grant's Camp, after the Canadian bridge contractor ...

Bay View’s Immigrants

From a quiet mid 19th–century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinninckinnic Avenue in only twenty years, Bay View’s industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant workers who poured into the community’s ...

Irish Immigrants in Refugio

The history of settlement in Refugio is closely associated with Ballygarrett, County Wexford, Ireland. Irish natives James Powers(c.1788-1852) and James Hewetson (1796-1870), both of whom immigrated to the United States in the early 19th Century and later became citizens of ...

Immigrants

"Immigrants are pouring in...land I would never have thought of choosing is being taken up." Writing from Chippewa County's Clear Water post office in 1855, Thomas Barland could scarcely have imagined the tide of immigrants yet to land in Eau ...

Grantsville

A Heritage of Hospitality

When the National Road came through here in 1815, this settlement was a half mile away along the old Braddock Road. This “New Grantsville” developed just west of the Casselman Bridge, completed a few years earlier. About ...

The Immigrants

Dedicated to the people of all nations who entered America through Castle Gardens.

In memory of

Samuel Rudin

1896 ---------- 1975

Whose parents arrived in America in 1883

Marker can be reached from State Street., on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org