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Article: Swedish roots run deep in Lake County.(Neighbor)(Lake County Discovery Museum)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2003
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Byline: Diana Dretske
Though the mass of Swedish immigration to the United States began in the 1840s, an organized group of colonizers came here in 1638.
These early Swedes were sent by the government in Stockholm to establish a colony under the Swedish crown in Delaware. New Sweden lasted until 1655 when the colony was lost to the Dutch. In the 19th century, immigration began in earnest and by the end of the 1860s, a series of famines in Sweden prompted an even greater immigration.
The fertile farmland of the Midwest became the destination for many Swedes. The first Swedish social clubs were started in New York in 1836 and Chicago in 1857. ...
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