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Kearny has been and continues to be an icon of multiculturalism. Kearnyís Immigrant Heritage traces the waves of immigrants who began to populate the town in 1875, when Clark Thread (now Coats & Clark) of Paisley, Scotland, opened two mills here and encouraged workers to immigrate. Swedes arrived in the Arlington section of Kearny as early as 1880, drawn by employment opportunities at the Celluloid Works and other nearby industries. Lithuanians came by 1895, resulting in Our Lady of Sorrows Church, the parish school, the Schuyler Savings Bank, and the Lithuanian Catholic Community Center. Italians from Calabria and Naples and Jewish families from Eastern Europe operated the local shops that lined Kearny and Midland Avenues and Elm Street. Japanese families settled in the Arlington neighborhood before 1917. ÝÝ

About the Author
Award-winning author Barbara Krasner is a historian, writer, lecturer, and native of Kearny. She follows the success of Kearny, published by Arcadia in 2000, with Kearnyís Immigrant Heritage, drawing upon numerous interviews. This long-awaited history contains cultural and family photographsómany uncovered in private collections and closeted archivesóranging from addressing the haggis on Scottish poet Robert Burnsí birthday to celebrating Portugal Day to commemorating independence on Lithuania Day.

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For more than 100 years, soccer has found a home in Kearny's immigrant culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Courtesy Portuguese Cultural Association, Courtesy First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kearny Avenue, Courtesy Kearny Museum, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Courtesy George Rogers, Courtesy Susan Leahy Jutkiewicz, Oakwood Avenue, Kearny High School, United States, Courtesy Jock Nisbet, Courtesy Tada Yamaguchi, New Jersey, Swedish Lutheran, Courtesy Fred Gillespie, Courtesy Harold Bjorken, Courtesy Newark Public Library, Courtesy Tomiko Masui, World Cup, Argyle Fish, Bergen Avenue, Courtesy Elena Nakrosis, Courtesy Rita Norberg, David Young, Duke Street New!
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