EXAMINING PATTERNS OF ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO ...

egion are actually clustering together. 49 In fact it seems that Sunny Italy (this is the name of
the settlement in the recollection of people interviewed by Professor Magnaghi and also
according to the censuses of 1920 and 1930) was the place where Toscani having some kind
of interest in farming preferred to settle. 50 On the other hand, farmers from Piemonte
clustered in an area of Franklin Township called Farm Section Location in the census of
1920. 51
TABLE XVII. SETTLEMENTS 1910
TOWNSHIP
Italians
Total and %
Torinesi
Total and %
Lucchesi
Total and %
ADAMS
730
(16.7%)
300
(13.6%)
260
(26.2%)
Atlantic Mine Location 41 Atlantic Loc. 14 (0.6%) Atlantic Loc. 17 (1.7%)
Baltic Mine Location 164 Baltic Loc. 96 (4.4%) Baltic Loc. 25 (2.5%)
Painesdale 89 Painesdale 49 (2.2%) Painesdale 16 (1.6%)
South Range Village 150 South Range 114 (5.2%) South Range 16 (1.6%)
Trimountain 286
Trimountain 27 (1.2%) Trimountain 186
(18.8%)
CALUMET
2,405
(54.9%)
1,308
(72.3%)
180
(23.2%)
C. & H. Location 366 C. & H. Loc. 251 (11.4%) C. & H. Loc. 34 (3.4%)
Laurium Village 608 Laurium Vill. 426 (19.4%) Laurium Village 34 (3.4%)
Raymbaultown 279 Raymbaultown 279 (12.7%) Raymbaultown 52 (5.2%)
Red Jacket Village 268 Red Jacket Vill. 141 (6.4%) Red Jacket Vill. 67 (6.6%)
Rest of the Twp. 1,163
Rest of the Twp. 490 (22.4%) Rest of the Twp. 45 (4.5%)
CHASSELL
0
(0%)
0 0
DUNCAN
0
(0%)
0 0
ELM RIVER
0
(0%)
0 0
FRANKLIN
668
(15.2%)
155
(7%)
294
(30%)
HANCOCK
180
(4.1%)
57
(2.6%)
59
(6%)
Hancock City 157 Hancock City 41 (1.9%) Hancock City 59 (6%)
Rest of Twp. 23
Rest of Twp. 16 (0.7%) Rest of Twp. 0
LAIRD
5
(0.1%)
4
(0.2%)
0
OSCEOLA
157
(3.6%)
56
(2.5%)
51
(5.2)
Opechee Location 23
Tamarack City 39
Rest of Twp. 95
49 This is true also for Italians in other parts of the United States. See Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press. 1970, p. 186.
50 Magnaghi, Russell. Interview with Louis Lombardi, 12-03-1982. In Lombardi’s words they settled there
because even though “better soil came off the hills […but in Sunny Italy the temperature] is 10 or 12 degrees
higher than on the hills”.
51 See APPENDIX X, Census of 1920.
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