Madeira Portuguese (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper builds on the historic context and project history presented in the earlier paper by Christopher Stratton, and describes the results of the archaeological mitigation conducted on four city lots occupied by Portuguese immigrants in Springfield (Illinois) beginning in the 1850s and continuing through the early years of the...
Middle Nineteenth Century Portuguese Immigrants in Springfield, Illinois: Context and Project History (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The first Portuguese arrived in Springfield (Illinois), from the Madeira Islands, in 1849, and by 1855 some 350 Portuguese were living in the city. They were exiles, who had been driven out of Madeira due to their conversion to Presbyterianism. Springfield’s Portuguese enclave was one of the first to be established in the Midwest...